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with roof-eement. Before putting together the boards wliich 

 fiirm the top of the cap of our liives, we make, along both 

 sides of the joints, a rounded groove, three-eighths of an 

 inch wide and one-fourth of an inch deep, in which tlie rain- 

 water runs, instead of lealcing inside. Mr. JlcCord of Ox- 

 ford, 0., made the cax-ers of liis hives water-tight, by cover- 

 ing them ■\\-ith strong muslin, tacked on with a strip nailed 



Fig. 84. 



TEI-STATE HIVE, WITH FLAT COVER AND TWO SUPERS. 



to the edges and thoroughly painted. Mr. G. M. Doolittle 

 and Dr. C. C. Miller use tin, painted white, on the tops of 

 their hives. The Swiss and French bee-keepers do the same. 

 A hive is made by some manufacturers which contains about 

 as much brood-chamber space as our large hive, while more 

 cheaply constructed. This is called the Jumbo hive (fig. 85), 

 and is made with lock comers similar to what is termed the 



