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Frame-Making. ' 



to success as to make it generally desirable for the apiarist to 

 change all his hives to secure a different style of frame. 



HOW TO CONSTBUCT THE FRAMES. 



In this description, I shall suppose that the frames desired 

 are of the form and size (Fig. 44) -(vhich I use. It will be 

 easy, for any who may desire, to change the form at pleasure. 



Fig. 44. FiG. 45. 



Frame, also Cross-Seciion of Top-Bar. 



For the top bar (Fig. 44, o) of the frame, use a triangular 

 strip twelve and one4ialf inches long, with each face of the 

 triangle one inch across. Seven-eighths of an inch from each 

 end of this, form a shoulder, by sawing from one angle to 

 within three-eighths of an incli of the opposite face, so that 

 when the piece is split out from the end, these projections 

 shall be just three-eighths of an inch thick throughout. The 

 top bar of the frame should be large and strong so as never to 

 break or even bend when in use. For the end pieces (Fig. 

 44, 6, 6), take strips ten and three-fourths inches long, seven- 

 eighths of an inch wide, and one-fourth of an inch thick. 

 Tack with small brads the end of two of these strips firmly to 

 the shoulder of the top-bar, taking pains that the end touched 

 squarely against the projection. Now tack to the opposite 

 ends or bottoms, the ends of a similar strip (Fig. 44, d), 

 eleven and a-fourth inches long and one eighth of an inch 

 thick. We shall thus have a frame eleven and one-fourth 

 inches square, outside measure. 



If comb-foundation is to be used, and certainly it will be 

 by the enterprising apiarist, then the top bar (Fig. 45, a) 

 should be twelve and cue-half iuclies by three-eighths by one 



