. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 1. across the centre. With a pencil and rule line out the piece lengthwise, and cut it into bars an inch wide, when it will be seem that each bar will fit the hive crosswise, the shoulders formed in cutting the rabbet preventing longi- tudinal movement. The wide ears must now be put on, and herein has been the difficulty with amateurs; if they nail on small pieces of wood they would almost certainly split; but if they adopt our idea they cannot fail. There is an old saying, ' There's nothing like leather,' and if our hive-making frien
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 1. across the centre. With a pencil and rule line out the piece lengthwise, and cut it into bars an inch wide, when it will be seem that each bar will fit the hive crosswise, the shoulders formed in cutting the rabbet preventing longi- tudinal movement. The wide ears must now be put on, and herein has been the difficulty with amateurs; if they nail on small pieces of wood they would almost certainly split; but if they adopt our idea they cannot fail. There is an old saying, ' There's nothing like leather,' and if our hive-making friends will obtain a strip of sole leather, or its best substitute, gutta percha, ten inches long, half an inch wide, and of the thickness of the reduced frame ends and cut it into inch lengths and then divide it diagonally as shown here they pieces,that frame ends will have twenty end- when fixed to the will neither split nor break off. Our next woodcut shows the true size (in flat section) of the Abbott frame-end, resting * In view of leather being used to widen the shoulders it may lessen the cost if the ends of the frames be rab- bel ted a quarter of an inch instead of an eighth ; it will not weaken the bar, and the leather being a quarter inch thick will be stout enough for all 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 London
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