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but when the inconvenience of access to the upper row is 

 considered, together with the disadvantage to the bees, it 

 will confine most economists to the single row. The 

 cheapest form is made by setting posts fii-mly into the 

 ground, six or eight feet apart, three or four feet from 

 front to rear, and five or six feet high. Cut those on the 

 back enough shorter to give a good jDitch to the roof, 

 which may be of boards or shingles. Ten or twelve inches 

 from the ground — not more than that — nail or cut in a 

 shoulder, to support a framework of joists, upon which 



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the stands are to be placed. Lay boards the width of the 

 hive or a little more, cross-wise the frame work, and set 

 the hive on the back end. 



I consider separate stands, with spaces between, a better 

 arrangement than the plank running lengthwise, as the 



