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Under another, no chafms or vacancies are 

 left between them. 



Secondly, that the frame of bars be made 

 to take out with eafe. 



Thirdly, that the fcrews for the covers 

 fhould be flight but long, to pafs in at the 

 fides, exactly one inch and a half, from 

 front and back, fo that any cover may fcrew 

 on any box, without making frefh holes. 

 They fhould always be greafed before they 

 are put in, or they will become rufty, and 

 not to be drawn out without great disturb- 

 ance to the bees 3 and much inconveniency. 



Fourthly, great care muft be taken that no 

 fnags or fplints of wood, heads, or points of 

 nails, rife in the leaft degree above the fur- 

 face, as a brafs plate is deligned to Aide over 

 the tops. 



A necefTary appendage, as well to the 

 hives as boxes, are two bIiass plates, 

 of one Jixteenth of an inch thick as near as 

 poffible, fifteen inches wide, and fifteen and 

 a half long, which half inch is to be turned 

 upright to pull it out by. Thsy muft be 

 fet on a true level. If they are thicker ,ihc bees 

 will efcape on their introduction ; and if 



thinner? 



