. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 80 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. The Rhode Island Nellis Hive. Seveial years ago we illustrated and priced in our Catalogue the VanDusen- Nellis hive. The demand was some- what limited, and we soon discontinued offering them for sale, and have for a long time only made them when order- ed. This style of hive has been in use quite extensively right along, however, in many parts of the New EnglandStates and elsewhere, and Mr. Sain'l Cushman sometime since made some improve- ments on it and adopted it in the Rhode Island Experimental Station, where it giv
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 80 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. The Rhode Island Nellis Hive. Seveial years ago we illustrated and priced in our Catalogue the VanDusen- Nellis hive. The demand was some- what limited, and we soon discontinued offering them for sale, and have for a long time only made them when order- ed. This style of hive has been in use quite extensively right along, however, in many parts of the New EnglandStates and elsewhere, and Mr. Sain'l Cushman sometime since made some improve- ments on it and adopted it in the Rhode Island Experimental Station, where it gives the best of satisfaction. He has given it the name of the Rhode Island- Nellis hive, and on account of its pop- ularity and really superior merits we have placed it in our'91 Catalogue. It is very simple, has no mitre joints,can be tiered up any desired height, is per- fectly tight, has entrance at both ends so that two colonies can be kept in one hive simply by using division boards and the entrance can be made anvsize cross-nailed, which greatly strengthens the hive. The edges are all even at the top. The bottom board is 20^ in. long, 15^ in. wide by § in. thick, made of two pieces. These are nailed at the ends to two cleats 15£ in. long, 1J in. wide by If in. thick. To prevent the hive from sliding off strips ^x7-16x20^r in. are nailed to the bottom board, so that the rabbets in lower edge of sides will fit on them. This gives an entrance at each end \ in. deep and 14^ in long. This can be made any desired size or altogether closed by strips ^x-J in. and of length io suit the size of entrance desired. In hot weather an entrance at each end is of great comfort to strong colonies. The surplus case is made just like the brood chamber above described, ex- cepting that the ends are only 5 1 -1 (> in. the sides 5 1-16 in. wide. The ends have a rabbet \ in. deep and | in. wide, upon which the wide frame rest. As these are not handled as much as the brood frames, me
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