MOVABLE-KRAME HIVES. 



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to support an adjustable entrance-block. Some Apiarists 

 use a tin slide, instead of an entmncc-hloek. We object to 

 it, because, if glued by bees it may be bent in handling, and 

 if it ij mislaid, it cannot always he promptly replaced ; 

 while any square wooden-block can take the place of the 

 entrance-block, if necessary. 



Fig. 70. 

 HIVB, SETTING FLAT ON THE BOTTOM. 



343. The apron, or slanting-board, helps overladen 

 workers to reach the entrance, when they have fallen to the 

 ground. The blocks that support the bottom, may be made 

 of unequal height, so as to give the hive the proper forward 

 slant, on level ground. If the grain of the lumber in the 

 bottom-board runs from front to rear, it will shed water 



