. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 18G THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 1, 1884. cut ; by means of the saw and square the lid is cut into a plain dummy, a frame top-bar is nailed to it, and one on the front of the box, and seven broad-shouldered frames dropped in. A piece of felt is cut to cover the top, a. strip of wood nailed on each side, to one of which two pieces of leather can be nailed to form hinges, a staple or screw-eye in the other, and one in the box, completes it; or, it may be done ns Fig. 17, the five strips being cut Tig. ft Hive. From a ' Green ' Holland
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 18G THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 1, 1884. cut ; by means of the saw and square the lid is cut into a plain dummy, a frame top-bar is nailed to it, and one on the front of the box, and seven broad-shouldered frames dropped in. A piece of felt is cut to cover the top, a. strip of wood nailed on each side, to one of which two pieces of leather can be nailed to form hinges, a staple or screw-eye in the other, and one in the box, completes it; or, it may be done ns Fig. 17, the five strips being cut Tig. ft Hive. From a ' Green ' Hollands Box. from slating laths, and the hinges formed by threading twine through screw eyes; it will just hold seven frames, and the division-board if left perfectly plain. These boxes are the most handy things possible to act as makeshift hives, nuclei, and storing frames or combs in. They charge me in this town 6d. each for them, so who would be without a bar-frame hive, when one can be got ready painted with frames, and roofed, for Is. Qd.—not the price of a skep with floor- board and cover? They could be easily worked in piles on the Stewarton principle, but I have not tried them this way yet, but I see no objection to it. Pig. 17 shows one of these boxes converted into a make- shift hive; the five strips A it c and E (i> being out of sight, but is like n) are cut from slating laths 1A by si ah and c should be 14A in. long, and v and D lGj in., and nailed together as shown, a piece of roofing felt is then nailed on to A and C ; the hinges are formed by threading twine through screw eyes, both sides being treated alike, the loop of twine is slipped over the bottom eyes, and sticks pushed through, which pre- vents it slipping off, or the wind lifting the roof off; either side will thus be lunged, and the roof can at once be lifted off, when the box — or hive rather— is not wanted to stand out-of-doors; strong twine or rope threaded through the eyes on each side will form
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