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FITTINGS AND APPARATUS. [Ch. iv. 



Our next cut represents the Woodbury cover, which is 

 formed in three portions (the roof, the super-cover, and 



the stock -hive cover). It 

 has an upper and a lower 

 door, or rather shutter, 

 behind. The whole can 

 be placed on a pedestal 

 as here shown. As this 

 cover requires to be lifted 

 off in pieces, and is liable 

 to be blown over by the 

 wind, it is not so con- 

 venient as those figured 

 below, which open on 

 hinges and are self- 

 supporting. 



We next give two representations of one of our more 

 elaborate covers, showing it respectively from behind as 

 opened and in front as closed. The former exhibits the 

 cover with one of our new frame hives (Chap. III. § x.} 

 within it, and two divisional supers upon the hive, the 

 roof being formed sufficiently high to accommodate these. 

 The cover is thus made to open near its vertical centre, 

 and is held back by a chain. The flap behind falls 

 down on opening the top to allow of inspecting the stock 

 hive without drawing it out of the cover. In the front 

 there is a portico for protection to the entrance, and 

 wood slides work in grooves to narrow the opening in 



