Q (20)
June 14th. The lower slatted front and rear platform might be nailed together so 
As to be each one piece, held in place by a movable strip between them and corner pieces. The 
Upper strip hardwood let down into a groove insides of hive, so arranged as to
be easily raised up higher for winter. This gives all the [illegible] needed. 
Give about room for five frames in front and rear apartments 
15th set grooves insides of lives be just deep enough to let hardwood 
Strips down to proper places. Let them have holes so that 
With a hook they can be gently lifted up say and inch, and [illegible] 
Nail or piece of wire placed under to keep them up to proper 
Height in winter. Set corner pieces [illegible] out so as to touch
These strips say one inch or more from them, front and rear movable slatted partitions 
May rest on small side strips, small strips let down between them on
Corner pieces will hold partition in place. Have no back [illegible] 
Slatted passage under frames [illegible] To dispense with it. Have
Entrance cover also back one on which boxes rest movable, as in 
Glass hive for examination and may have holes letting bees into boxes also
As well as front and rear hole holes in boxes admitting bees front and 
Rear. Front entrance in winter should have wire arrangement to keep 
Out mice. I jot down hive just as the thing unfolds, much as I would talk 
It out. Set corner blocks go down to floor of hive, have shoulders as high 
As hard woodframe supporters, so that these win in their grooves rest
Against these shoulders and are thus made very much stiffer, space
Below shoulders the place for movable shallow partitions which need not be slatted 
Should be only 1/4 inch or 3/8 inch thick with 1/2 inch clamping pieces on their outsides too 
Serve as handles, these fit in spaces in corner blocks under the shoulders,
May be kept in place by wedges on bottom. Would there be any need of these
Slatted partitions for the [illegible]. The shoulders of the frames maybe say 1/2 inch or 5/8 inches 
And the comb in the front and rear apartments would then come so close to
The uprights in the center apartment that the bees would not build [illegible] them and
combs. Boxes now would set up close against uprights. Winter cushions 



