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hive. There must be no sorting required — as to which rack 

 belongs to No. 2, or what dummy-board belongs to No. 8. If 

 you pick up a portion, it must go into any hive you require it 

 for. We have illustrated a bar-frame hive in which all the 

 complications of several on the market are done away with. It is 

 just a simple affair — can be understood in a few minutes. All 

 parts are not only interchangeable with other hives, but also with 

 itself. No extensive winter packing is required, but just enough 

 thickness to ensure 

 warmth when snow 

 lies thick on the 

 ground. It can be 

 enlarged to any 

 size — not longitu- 

 dinally, as that is 

 not wanted, but 

 horizontally; a 

 good roof, with 

 eaves overlapping, 

 and water-tight 

 joints, preventing 

 that bane to suc- 

 cessful wintering, 

 dampness. 



We will now give 

 a description of this 

 hive, commencing 

 with the lower por- 

 tion : This, as will 

 be seen in the 

 illustration, has the 

 floor-board and 

 stand in one piece, 

 and is supported 

 by four short legs. 

 Upon this is the 

 body-box, having 

 double walls at the 

 sides, and in the 

 space between the 

 walls, not occupied 

 by the wood blocking, sawdust or other non-conducting substance 

 is packed. The outer wall is iiin. high and |in. thick, and the 

 inner one SJin. by Jin. The distance between the two inner 

 walls is i4jin. and between the outer i/in. full. The measure- 

 ment from back to front is i8in. All the foregoing are 

 inside measurements ; the outside -need not be exact but the 

 inside must be. By having an inner wall on each side of the 

 hive of a lesser height than the outer, the top edge of the former 



Bar-frame Hive. 



