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the top triangular comb-guide, so as to set corner-wise in 

 the friime, 8| by f by f. A morlice, 4 by ;J may be cut 

 through two opposite corners of this piece, to allow the bees 

 to pass from comb to cdmb in the Winter. This mortice 

 may be cut put with a circular saw by holding (u), while 

 pushing it down over the saw, in a groove formed in a 

 piece of board such as is shown cut in (a), figs. 4 and 5. All 

 the parts of the movable frames should be cut out by a circu- 

 lar saw, and the measurements should be exact, so that the 

 frames vv'hen nailed together may be perfectly square. If 

 they are not both strong and square, the proper working of 

 the hive will be greatly interfered with. Frames for holding 

 spare honey in the upper apartment, need no Winter passage. 

 Ten frames equally distant from each other, are placed in 

 the lower hive, and nine in the upper, for spare honey. 



PLATE 11. Figs. 4 and 5 show the Gage-board for sawing 

 the copings of the movable comb-frames. 



Fig. 4 is a view, and Fig. 5, a cross section. 



a Foundation board, 20 by 10 by |^, with two grooves cut 

 lengthwise in it, each making one half of a square ihat meas- 

 ures -|ths. b h Guide strips for holding to be coped, the top 

 triangular comb-guide (m) of the movable frames, 2 by J by 

 Yl^, beveled under on the inner edge, -jV ^ c Gage stops for 

 top triangular piece (u) of frame, so placed that said piece 

 when the copings are sawed out, will be 17^ths in length. 

 d d Gage stops so fixed in the grooves cut in (a), that the 

 winter passages {v) when coped shall be 8|-ths in length, 

 e Guide block, in which block and the piece (a), the saw is 

 guided in kerfs cut on an angle of 60° with the end. By the 

 arrangement above described, the movable frames may be 

 coped rapidly and accurately by hand. Coping the frames 

 makes them very much stronger than mitering them ; it may 

 be done with the circular saw. 



PLATE II, Figs. 6, 7 and 8, show the Gage-Block for fast- 

 ening the movable frames together. 



Fig. 6, is a view of the front of this block, Fig. 8 a view 



