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are tacked on to form metal supports, and four pieces of tin, 2in. wide, 

 bent neatly over the mitred corner, ensure its being waterproof. A 

 fillet rebated to fit the super in use, fixed round the top, iin. deep from 

 outside shoulder, ensures gin. between the frames. Four pieces, lOJin. 

 long and ljin. square, are rebated lin. each way, and fixed up to the 

 angles ; the two slots for entrance are connected, and an alighting 

 board screwed on. Turn it upside down to fill it with chaff, and put 



Fig. 115.— BRICKELL'S CHAFF-HIVE. 



a piece of tarred felt over the chaff before the bottom is screwed on ; 

 this prevents the damp from turning the chaff musty. The advantages 

 of chaff hives made in this way are that they can be manipulated as 

 easily as the ordinary two-story hive in the summer, and yet afford 

 the necessary protection in winter. " 



PROVIDING SPACE ABOVE FRAMES IN WINTER. 



This is another expedient which many bee-keepers in cold 

 climates have recourse to for the better wintering of their 

 bees. The object in the first place was to provide a winter 

 passage from comb to comb in the warmest part of the hive, 

 and for this purpose small sticks were placed across the frames 

 to raise the mats and chaff cushion a little ; but some four 

 years ago a Mr. Hill conceived the idea of providing a space 

 large enough to allow of the bees clustering in it, and it was 



