160 miner's AMERICAN 



on either side of the chamber, are rabbeted out half an 

 inch, so as to admit the door of the chamber to shut 

 against the rabbet, making a better job. 



The top of the hive should project all round, about 

 an inch or more. 



This hive is made to be suspended, or to set down 

 upon a stand. There are a couple of bars, about an inch 

 thick, placed on each side of the hive, near where the 

 division-board separates the lower from the upper sec- 

 tion, as may be seen in the engraving. These bars 

 should be screwed on ; yet, for a common hive, nailing 

 may do very well. The use of these bars is to support 

 the hive, when the apiarian wishes to suspend it, rather 

 than rest it on a floor-board, as the preceding cut repre- 

 sents. 



This, as well as every other kind of hive that I shall 

 illustrate, when resting on a floor-board, should rest on 

 pins in the summer season ; and in the winter season, 

 the bees should enter the small openings, in the front 

 and rear only, as directed in the case of the box-hive, in 

 the preceding cut ; and be subject to the same manage- 

 ment in every particular. 



