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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, Sin. deep from 
outside shoulder, ensures Zin. between the frames. Four pieces, 104in. 
long and 14in. 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,—BRICKELU’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 
