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between it and the frames. This gives chance to pack with 

 chaff in winter, and for side and top storing in sections in 

 summer. 



Tlie Bingham hive (Fig. 73) is not only remarkably 

 simple, but is as remarkable for its shallow depth, the 

 frames being only five inches high. These have no 

 bottom-bar. The end-bars are one and a half inches wide, 

 and the top-bar square. The nails that hold the end-bars 

 pass into the end of the top-bar, which is usually placed 

 diagonally, so that an edge, not a face, is below; though 

 some are made with a face below (Fig. 73, y), to be used 

 when comb is transferred. The frames are held together 

 by twro wires, one at each end. Each wire (Fig. 73, a) is 

 a little longer than twice the width of the hive when the 

 maximum number of frames are used. The ends of each 



Fig. 73. 



'Frames and Bottom-Board of the Bingham Hive, 



wire are united and placed about nails (Fig. 73, ^, 3) in 

 the ends of the boards (Fig. 73, c, c) which form the 

 sides of the brood-chamber. A small stick (Fig. 73, a) 

 spreads these wires, and brings the frames close together. 

 A box without bottom and with movable cover, is placed 

 about the frames. This is large and high enough to permit 

 of chaff packing in winter and spring. The bottom-board 

 may be made like the one already described. Mr. Bing- 

 ham does not bevel the bottom-board, but places lath 

 under three sides of the brood-chamber, the lath being 

 nailed to the bottom-board. He uses the Langstroth blocks 

 to contract the entrance (Fig. 73, g'). 



The advantages of this hive are simplicity, great-space 

 above for surplus frames or boxes, capability of being 



