. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 6. Fig. 7. and then stand inside it on a box or stool, and let a friend bring you two of the triangular roof panels, and hinge them on opposite side panels, hooking their upper ends into ridge-piece. When tlie eight roof panels are fastened into their places you will find that the sides will have been Srawn'into an exact octagon. It only remains for you to drive a peg into the ground at each of the eight angles inside and the bee-house will stand secure. To furnish it cut seven shelves or flaps, each 2 ft. broad, the outer edge being
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 6. Fig. 7. and then stand inside it on a box or stool, and let a friend bring you two of the triangular roof panels, and hinge them on opposite side panels, hooking their upper ends into ridge-piece. When tlie eight roof panels are fastened into their places you will find that the sides will have been Srawn'into an exact octagon. It only remains for you to drive a peg into the ground at each of the eight angles inside and the bee-house will stand secure. To furnish it cut seven shelves or flaps, each 2 ft. broad, the outer edge being 'â '> ft. wide and the inner edge only 16 in. (tig. 8). Hinge the upper face of each shelf to lower side of central batten in each side, so that when not in use it can fall down fiat against side, and cut a slit 0 in. X n in. through side of bee-house for a bee-pas- sage. Cut fourteen laths 2 ft. G in. X o in. x 1 in. and hinge two of them to bottom batten of each side panel so that they may support the shelf when in use, and when packed may lie flat over same shelf. These details are made clear in fiff. 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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