It is at least too bothersome for _me_ to make the Harbison frames,
as per GLEANINGS; I have made some very nice frame boxes, top and
end pieces all 1½ inches wide, ends are 5 inches long and top and
bottoms 6¼ inches long and nailed to end pieces, which are ¼ thick
and top and bottom ⅛ inch thick; outside sections are 1¾ wide with a
groove to receive a glass 5×6. I place the pieces in a long
bottomless box or frame, wedge them up together and nail them, and
then fasten strips of stout paper across them. I forgot to say in
the proper place, that for an entrance I cut a notch in each side of
the bottom pieces ¼×2 inches. I leave the bottom pieces wide because
it makes a better box and is more convenient, one box can be raised
up and another placed under it without much danger of killing bees,
use a wax guide in each frame.
R. S. BECKTELL, New Buffalo, Mich.
[As it is a little inconvenient to cut the notches in the Harbison
frame with our circular saws, we think they may be omitted and the
stout paper used as above. In making these light frames, perhaps it
would be well to fix on a size that would allow of putting 4 or 6
inside our large frames. Quinby advises this with his new hive, and
illustrates it in _Am. Ag._ for Feb.—Ed.]
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