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width as the thickness of the hive stuff, % of an inch, it 
comes flush with the front surface of the hive. I then take 
a piece of lath 8 or 9 inches long, set it up on its edge against 
the middle part of the entrance, lay against the lath a 1-inch 
wire nail, and crowd the nail into the bottom or alighting- 
board by means of the thumb-nail or a chisel. 
MACHINE FOR EMPTYING T-SUPERS. 
My arrangement for taking sections out of the T-supers is 
made in a common wooden liive-cover, 8 inches deep, 21 
inches long, and 17% inches wide, inside measure. These 
exact dimensions are notabsolutely essential, but I happened 
to have this on hand. Practical difficulties, however, would 
come in the way of anything much smaller. Now make a 
box without top or bottom, 1634 X H, <*nd 6 inches deep. The 
hive-cover being set upside down, put this smaller box in it, 
near one corner, so that the side of the box shall be 1 7-16 
inches from the side of the hive-cover, and the end of the 
box 1 5-16 inches from the end of the hive-cover. Now nail 
the box securely to the hive-cover, and cut out that part of 
the hive-cover which is now the bottom of the smaller box. 
This whole arrangement, so far, is merely to hold a bearing- 
board in place. 
The bearing-board is now to be made. Take a board 16% 
inches long and 11 inches wide. Take boards 12 inches long 
and 3.4-inch thick and nail them across the first board so as 
to just cover its length, and project %-inch at each side. 
This makes a surface 16%xl2 inches. If this bearing-board 
be now put inside an empty T-super, and the T*super raised, 
it will be seen that the bearing- board will easily drop through 
the super, except where it is upheld by the three pieces of 
sheet-iron on each side. Places must be cut out of the 
bearing-board so that the sheet-iron pieces will present no 
hindrance. In order to make these places abundantly large, 
I cut them 1 %x% inch. When cut out, the measure will be, 
from the corner of the board to the first place or hole, 334 
