. A manual of bee-keeping. Bees. wide. It should be. cut as shown in Fig. 7. Make a notch in a lath, 17 inches from its end, at I inch from which bore a hole with a brad-awl, which stick 16 inches from the end of the felt at B, and equally dis- ^'S- 7- tant—that is, 16 inches —from each edge. With chalk in the notch in the lath run round the three-quarter circle. A, C, E. Now place the awl at A, and describe the three-quarter circle F, D, B. Cut out the two covers through F, A, B, E. Draw their straight edges together, until one edge touches the dotted line. Tack these two edges together into
. A manual of bee-keeping. Bees. wide. It should be. cut as shown in Fig. 7. Make a notch in a lath, 17 inches from its end, at I inch from which bore a hole with a brad-awl, which stick 16 inches from the end of the felt at B, and equally dis- ^'S- 7- tant—that is, 16 inches —from each edge. With chalk in the notch in the lath run round the three-quarter circle. A, C, E. Now place the awl at A, and describe the three-quarter circle F, D, B. Cut out the two covers through F, A, B, E. Draw their straight edges together, until one edge touches the dotted line. Tack these two edges together into a thin lath, and the cover is in form. The waste pieces of felt, which will be very small, will suffice for four straps, to be fastened' underneath by clenched nails, and which may be tied to the hive by a' string passing round it. This will effectually pre- vent the cover being blown away in the. stiffest gales. Fig. 8 shows the cover com- plete ; it will be 24 inches in diameter, G, H, and will consequence of its greater size, far better than a milk-pan, while it costs only ^^d. Coated with tar, and afterwards sprinkled with hot sand, this cover will last many years. The same form in zinc would be more sightly, but it would cost about is. 6d. for ;. Fig. 8. afford, in protection. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hunter, John. London, W. H. Allen
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