. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The Right Way to Nail Hive-Bodies. out and set up with accuracy and dura- bility. The ends are beveled or rab- beted by machinery or by hand with a rabbet plane on three edges; the top edge is to receive a regular tin rabbet, such as those that are sent out with regular dovetailed hives, which makes by far the best frame rest. The rabbet should be ^s of an inch deep all around and as wide as the material is thick, so when nailed up there would be no pro- jections. For the supers the rabbet should be but K inch wide on the top edges, so the shallow fra
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The Right Way to Nail Hive-Bodies. out and set up with accuracy and dura- bility. The ends are beveled or rab- beted by machinery or by hand with a rabbet plane on three edges; the top edge is to receive a regular tin rabbet, such as those that are sent out with regular dovetailed hives, which makes by far the best frame rest. The rabbet should be ^s of an inch deep all around and as wide as the material is thick, so when nailed up there would be no pro- jections. For the supers the rabbet should be but K inch wide on the top edges, so the shallow frames may rest on it, and the same for comb lioney supers, as no tin rabbets are used with supers. The inside dimensions for the ends should be 12'i inches. To get the outside dimension add twice the thick- ness of the material. The sides are cut off square 18-'+ inches long. The ma- terial should be gotten out or bought dressed all around, and about thirteen- sixteenths of an inch thick, which is now the standard thickness, and 9V inches deep for hive bodies, 5U for shallow extracting supers or for supers for tall sections, and 4-I4 inches wide for low or square sections. Short or narrow blocks may be nailed on the sides and ends for grip. The manner of nailing up is well illustrated by the cut. Nail from both ways, using as many nails as necessary' for a good, durable body; 8 d flat-headed cement- coated nails are best. A Bee-Producer Dear reader, I want you to turn back with me to Mr. J. K. Isbell's article on bee-production in our department, page 367 of the December number, read and re-read it until we have his method of bee-production well fixed in our minds so we can take it up step by step just as he outlines and carries it out. Now is the time to take the first step in this management. It is needless for me to state what the results will be if all our colonies are boiling over with bees at the beginning of the first honey- flow, and this will be the case if we carry out
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