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below (Fig. 36, b), which should be one-fourth by one-eighth 

 inch, the longest direction up and down. This should be 

 entirely to one side of the centre, so that when the foundation 

 (Fig. 36, c) is pressed against this piece it will hang exactly 

 from the centre of the top-bar. If preferred, the bottom of the 

 frame (Fig. 36, e) need not be more than half as wide or thick 

 as described above. 



The timber should be thoroughly seasoned, and of the best 

 pine or white-wood. Care should be taken that the frame be 

 made so as to hang vertically, when suspended on the rabbets 

 of the hive. To secure this very important point — true 



Fig. 36. 



Frame, also Cross- Section of Top-Bar. 



frames that will always hang true — they should always be 

 made around a guide. 



A BLOCK FOR MAKING FRAMES. 



This may be made as follows : Take a rectangular board 

 (Fig. 37) eleven and a quarter by thirteen and a half inches. 

 On both ends of one face of this, nail hard-wood pieces (Fig. 37, 

 e, e) one inch square and eleven inches long, so that one 

 end (Fig. 37, r/, g) shall lack one-fourth inch of reaching 

 the edge of the board. On the other face of the board, nail 

 a strip (Fig. 37, c) four inches wide and eleven and a quarter 

 inches long, at right-angles to it, and in such position that 

 the ends shall just reach to the edges of the board. Midway 

 between the one inch square pieces, screw on another hard- 

 wood strip (Fig. 37, d) one inch square and four inches long, 

 parallel with and three-fourths of an inch from the edge. 



