46 SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPING, 
SINGLE HIVES. 
Fig. 22 is a side view of the hive, showing the manner 
of adjusting the frames. The single hive is made exactly 
like, and of the same inte- 
rior dimensions of, one-quar- 
= <3, (3 ter of a quadruple one ; that 
a Th is, twelve by twelve inches, 
and seventeen inches high. 
Eight frames fill the hive. 
Those who prefer inclined 
bottom boards, can rest the 
frames on wedge shaped 
cleats secured on the in- 
side, and near the bottom 
of the side walls of the 
re 1 FT I?) (| hive. ‘This will allow the 
bottom to be hung by 
hooks, and swung up close 
co to the lower edge of the 
Fig. 22. movable front, dispensing 
with the slide. This style of hive, with my improved 
frames, possesses many advantages over any other single 
hive. It is simple, easily made, and cheap; readily 
cleaned of all filth, by swinging the bottom board down, 
without in the least disturbing the bees, affords not the 
slightest point, inside of the hive, inaccessible to them, 
for the moth to deposit her eggs,* and combines the most 
practical form of the movable comb frame, and manner 
of using it, in a plain box hive. 
*“ There being no such thing as a moth-proof hive in existence, nor any 
prospect of such a discovery ever being made, we are compelled to be content 
with that which makes the nearest approach to it, viz., one that gives the bee- 
keeper easy access to the worms.”-—Bee Culture, p. 115. 
