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EXPLANATION OE PLATES. 
cover being removed, to show one of the frames. Fig. 2 is a ver 
tical longitudinal section, and Fig. 3, a vertical cross section of 
the same 
(A) Two pieces, front and rear of hive, 14}"x8}"x}". (c) 
Two pieces, sides of hive, 19}"xl0"x}", with outside lower 
edges beveled off — when a movable bottom-board is used — to 
avoid crushing bees, or giving lurking-places to moths or worms. 
When the bottom-board is fixed in the hive, the sides should 
be 19}" x 10} ' x }", and the bottom-board 25}" x 14}" x }", 
clamped on the under side. If another hive, of the same form, is 
put on the first, for surplus honey, as in Fig. 16 (p. 48), holes 
may be made through this bottom-board, as directed for Hives 
No. 2. (d) Two pieces, strips on upper part of hive, front and 
rear, forming rabbets for the frames to rest upon. 15}" x l}"x}". 
(/) Movable cover, 25}" x 18" x}". This should be tongued 
and grooved together, and may also be rain-grooved, as shown for 
the top of the hive in Fig. 23 (p. 96). The grain of the wood 
should run from front to rear. ( g ) Two pieces, damps on 
under side of cover, 18"x2"x}". The front and rear (A) 
of the hive should he nailed between the sides (c), flush with 
their ends, but with the upper edges of ( b ) }" below the upper 
edges of (c). Some may prefer that the grain of the wood, both 
of the bottom-board and cover, should run from side to side, 
instead of from front to rear. 
Movable Comb-Frames. Figs. 1, 4, and 22, pages 20, 24, 88. 
(t) Two pieces, top, 19}" 1" x^"; bottom, 17f"x}"x}''. 
(u) Ends or vertical pieces,* two pieces, 8}"x}"x}." (u) One 
piece, triangular-top comb-guide, 1 6 j" x J" x t" x i". This should 
be nailed to the top of the frame, centrally with regard to its 
* The triangular plecos, represented In many of the engravings, not answering 
the ends Intended, I return to the shape originally used. The Winter passage (u), 
which was suggested f r trial, is also discarded, Mr. Cary’s method (p. 337) being 
much belter. 
