. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. prevents the necessity for chamfering the top edges of the side or eave-boards, which fit solidly on to the front and back. The flat top or ridge-board also comes sojidly upon the wide piece left at the top, which, instead of being a narrow strip with short grain to nail to, has plenty of strength to stand any amount of fair wear and nailing. The top-board is grooved on both under edges, to secure a drip and prevent moisture soaking inwards. Before putting on the roof, however, the sides of the ' foundation ' should be nailed between the f
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. prevents the necessity for chamfering the top edges of the side or eave-boards, which fit solidly on to the front and back. The flat top or ridge-board also comes sojidly upon the wide piece left at the top, which, instead of being a narrow strip with short grain to nail to, has plenty of strength to stand any amount of fair wear and nailing. The top-board is grooved on both under edges, to secure a drip and prevent moisture soaking inwards. Before putting on the roof, however, the sides of the ' foundation ' should be nailed between the front and back, as indicated by the dotted lines to the right and left of o. These sides will be of about 16f inches in length ; it is impossible to give accu- rate measurement, because one can never know how much the front and back will be reduced in thickness by planing. Suffice it, then, that the sides must be of sufficient length to cause the front and back each to project 1-16th of an inch outside the hive, and must them- selves project as much at the sides, making the foundation, as before said, a little too big. The roof we have already nailed on, but there re- mains to put a couple of screws inside up through each of the top edges of the side or eave-boards into the flat ridge-board, to prevent 'buckling,'and to run a plinth all round the bottom edge, to break the joint, keep out the weather, and prevent the whole roof from moving from its place on the hive. There is a very great advantage in having flat tops to roofs, as they offer tables to lay anything upon. Many a knife, screw-driver, &c. have be?n lost through being placed upon the ground, sloping- roofs offering no convenience of the kind, and those who have felt the comforts of such aids in an apiary are likely ever to eschew the fanciful and ornamental in favour of the practical. There now only remains the making of the bar-frames to complete our hive, and thes' must (or should) be made of a size that will le
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