. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. IIIVE-MAKING. 114 IIIVE-MAKIjSTG. liave the first board lie straight and flat. If it is to be left out of doors, it should have slant enough to carry off the water. If you have shop room, you can put it in doors. Do not lay the first board on the floor, but have some sticks under it. These sticks for stick- ing up lumber should be of an exact thick- ness, and I think it will pay to provide some tfiat are just right. If yon are making many hives, you will have refuse sticks that will come very lian
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. IIIVE-MAKING. 114 IIIVE-MAKIjSTG. liave the first board lie straight and flat. If it is to be left out of doors, it should have slant enough to carry off the water. If you have shop room, you can put it in doors. Do not lay the first board on the floor, but have some sticks under it. These sticks for stick- ing up lumber should be of an exact thick- ness, and I think it will pay to provide some tfiat are just right. If yon are making many hives, you will have refuse sticks that will come very liandy for this purpose. The sticks should be about H inches wide, exact- ly i thick, and 15 or 20 inches long. A stick should be placed at each end of tlie boards, and two more between them, so as to make tlie spaces about equal. Put the sticks ex- actly over each other, or you will, if you liave a large pile, have the boards bent or warped by the weight of those above. "Wlien they are all piled up square and true, you can feel safe in regard to them. Even if tlie lumber is to be used within three days, I would ]nit it up in this way as soon as it is unloaded. If you are going to make accui'ate worlv, you must liave your lumber all of an exact tliickness; and as it is much easier to talk and write about having it exactly I than it is to make it so, I will explain to you a kind of gauge that I liad to give the planiug-mill men, before we planed our own lumlier. Below is a iiicture of it. full 'KE l-Oi; l'LAMN(; !. AVlien you carry them tlie lumber, tell them if it is planed so that the "too large" notcli just fits it, it will have to be planed over again: and that, if it goes into the "too small" iiotdi. it is spoiled. Tliis will soon get them into the liabit of liaving it'? just riglil," every time. Their planers must also lie so adjusted that botii eilges of tlie board are jiiat right. Since the is-inch Lilliputians cost only i?
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