,42 BEE BOXES. 



CHAP. VIII. 



ON BEE BOXES. 



EE boxes are beft made of feafoned 

 yellow deal, free from knots, and one inch 

 thick. The boxes are to be ten inches high, 

 and twelve fquare ; clear in the infule (pi. 

 1, fig. 2.) One of the fides is to have a 

 pane of glafs, d, of the whole width, and fix 

 inches in height, with a mutter half an inch 

 thick, to be let into a bevel at top, and reft 

 on a ledge at bottom, and to fallen with a 

 button, a ; this is to be efteemed the back. 

 There mull be a door-way in the bottom edge 

 of the front, four inches long, and five- 

 eighths in height, exclufive of the threjhold^ 

 which is to be one-eighth of an inch thick, 

 to be let into the edge of the box, and on a 

 level therewith. 



A flip of wood is to be fitted for a door, 

 to turn outward to the left, on a pivot or 

 pin, and to {hut in a bevel, with a fmall 

 notch, that it may be opened by the point of 



a fork. 



