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Show PACKING CASE FOR WINTER Inexpensive Box That Does Away With Usual Extra Cover and Bottom Bot-tom Board Is Illustrated. Last year I used a winter case which is very inexpensive, as it does away with the usual extra cover and bottom-board. bottom-board. . The box is six inches larger all around at the bottom edge than the hive, and tapers up to a point about a foot above the hive, where it Is small enough to take the regular cover. If made any shallower it comes too close to the top edge of the hive and prevents pouring the packing pack-ing around the hive. To close the opening below I make a frame of six-inch stuff the same size inside as the outside of the hive, says H. A. Winter Packing Case. Smith of Palermo, Ont., In the Gleanings Glean-ings in Bee Culture. When ready to pack I slip the hive forward on ita bottom about one inch, and then slip the frame down till it rests on the bottom bot-tom at the front and back. The packing-box rests on this frame; and if the box is held in position until some of the packing is poured around the hive it will not move off its frame afterward. aft-erward. If the box is made of half-inch matched lumber it will not leak; but if made of plain lumber it should be covered with tar felt. |