The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . FIO. 4. OUR PERMANENT DOUBLE-AVALL- ED CHAFF-1 ACKED DOVETAILED HIVE. A one-story chatf hive is preferable to onemade of two stories. First, to secure light-ness; and seccmd. that the same may be in-terchangeable with the Dovetailed hive orany of its furniture. Tlie hive above se-cures both of these advantages,
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . FIO. 4. OUR PERMANENT DOUBLE-AVALL- ED CHAFF-1 ACKED DOVETAILED HIVE. A one-story chatf hive is preferable to onemade of two stories. First, to secure light-ness; and seccmd. that the same may be in-terchangeable with the Dovetailed hive orany of its furniture. Tlie hive above se-cures both of these advantages, and at thesame time it weighs but a triile more thanthe permanent single-walled hives. It ismade of f inch lumber, also dovetailed atthe corners. The inside width is l?i,and will take eightframes and a division board with sime hive may mIsj be made to take afull-depth story. The water-table has araised projection, so that the separate parts FIG. 5. DOVETAIIED CHAFF HISINGLE-WALLED UPPER S VE WrORY. The space between the walls is 11 is also a double bottom and tarredpaper to prevent rotting. The hive may bepacked or not, as desired, and the wholeweighs only 2 lbs. more than the single-walled hive with bottom-board. It will beobserved that we have dispense
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