Wool or woolen rags might be on partitions. Or perhaps better still, 
Let corner pieces be kept down so low that tops of frames would 
In the side apartments would come say 1/4 inch below projecting shoulders
A frame in central apartment, so that the frame [illegible] central ones
Could be slid under projecting shoulders which then may be kept off the
Old and convenient size. The side frames might be [illegible] low enough to
Get with proper [illegible] of [illegible] board under them the right height. 
These 12 by 12 frames not so [illegible] to handle or to examine, but maybe 
Held so as to be about right. A, a, to be grasped
In the fingers, eyes and hands then all right. 
 (16th) If desired to get frames into the apartments of same [illegible] Maine
hive, easily effected by keeping corner posts on which they rest higher up. 
Let entrance space be 7/8 inches deep, [illegible] of its covering board 4/8 inches, this with the
Arrangement to get combs inside apartments to come close up to uprights 
Gives us the two inches we need to make height right for apartment [illegible] of hard 
Use in portico along strip 7/8 inches thick with [illegible] van when
Desired to give bees [illegible] in warm weather more room and air remove this
Strip set this strip on its longest shoulders 7 eights inches. When desired to keep mice
Out set it reuse it so that entrance is only 1/4 inch high. When in winter or 
Spring wish to clean out hive, remove it and the frames long say 7/8 inches higher 
Then summer arrangement very easily done. 
July 1st. The uprights of the frame may be hollowed out bye [illegible] 
upon a circular saw. If the frames in the central apartment front and rear 
Apartments are kept say 1/4 of an inch from the uprights the bees would 
Cluster against them and have easy access to passage from comb to
comb through the slots in the uprights. 



