. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. trated by the engraving. His own description runs thus:— ' The body box is of inch pine, floor-board of inch matched (t. e. grooved and tongued) flooring, planed, and the roof is of half-inch deal. The dotted lines in the upper angle of the roof show the position of a veil of wood, set an inch in front of the ventilation-holes, to keep out wet. The stand is formed of four bricks set on edge, parallel to each side, in the positions indicated ; the dotted lines at bottom show the position of a flight board, sloping, at a low angle, from the
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. trated by the engraving. His own description runs thus:— ' The body box is of inch pine, floor-board of inch matched (t. e. grooved and tongued) flooring, planed, and the roof is of half-inch deal. The dotted lines in the upper angle of the roof show the position of a veil of wood, set an inch in front of the ventilation-holes, to keep out wet. The stand is formed of four bricks set on edge, parallel to each side, in the positions indicated ; the dotted lines at bottom show the position of a flight board, sloping, at a low angle, from the entrance to the ground. The hive is " literally " Abbott's Combination without legs. The entrance slides run on screws. ' If I made the frames, the cost of the material of the hive complete, without labour, would be under six shillings, exclusive of supers, which I consider would come under the heading of working expenses. I do not charge labour, for my son and myself will do all the car- pentering and labouring necessarj.' (To be continued.) HIVE CONSTRUCTION. (Continual from page 179.) The moveable comb-hive as we found it had evidently been constructed with a view to the convenience of both bees and bee-keepers, but we fear without a correct appreciation of the wilfulness of the former, who persist in adhering to the principles dictated to them by the wis- dom we call instinct, a faculty that never errs. This truism is so generally admitted that it may be taken for granted, and therefore in hive construction we cannot be wrong in accept- ing the bees' own evidences of what is best adapted for their comfort and convenience. The bar-frame hive of twenty years ago was formed on the model illustrated in the wood-cut No. 1, the frames hung upon rabbets formed in its back and front walls, and there were spaces above and on both sides of the frames of three- eighths of an inch, and below of over half an inch, the walls and crown-board were of inch 1 Wkm?m4WM3§M>. de
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