. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 184 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 1, 1875. heat or moisture of tlie bees when the hive is in use, and for this purj^ose strips of wood about 6 inches long and | square, are nailed on to the legs, so that they form backings to F and G, and fix them securely. (This may not perhaps be easy to follow while reading, but if put in practice wdl be found perfectly lucid and workable.) We have now our stock-hive complete, minus the outer front and back, the tops of the sides, the floor-board, and the frames; and here the hive-maker must determine
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 184 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 1, 1875. heat or moisture of tlie bees when the hive is in use, and for this purj^ose strips of wood about 6 inches long and | square, are nailed on to the legs, so that they form backings to F and G, and fix them securely. (This may not perhaps be easy to follow while reading, but if put in practice wdl be found perfectly lucid and workable.) We have now our stock-hive complete, minus the outer front and back, the tops of the sides, the floor-board, and the frames; and here the hive-maker must determine on the thickness which the toj) bars of the frames are to be, and whether our bugbear, a space above, between them and the Fig. 2. shall be permitted. Taking the thickness of the bars to be 5-16ths of an inch, and no si^ace above them, the side - pieces to confine the air in the cheeks of the hive will be 5-16ths also; but if sjDace between the frames and crown-board be permitted, the thickness of the top side-pieces must be increased in the same degree, and the outer front and back of the hive kej)t up even with them. Both front and back will present a width of 17^ inches when fiuis/ied, but in cutting the boards it would be well to allow an extra quarter of an inch in length, so that, when all is nailed together, tlie corners of the hive may be nicely ' cleaned ofi'' with a smoothing plane. (To be cmichichd in our ) [AVe are confident that all the measurements given are exact;—there is no dovetaiUng, no intricacy, and nothing: special required beyond squareness and correct measm-e- uient. An amateur may copy out the size and number of the pieces and can get the stuff properly cut at any carpenter's shop, and may go home and make one of the best hives ever put before the public for as many pence as such a one would formerly cost shillings. In our next full instruciious will be gi^-en for finishing the work, so as to be in pleutj- of time for the swar
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