The next pair of views represent another very useful cover, but it has the objection of being bulky and more costly. The open figure exhibits, within the cover, our new glass frame hive and super ([page 142]). The hinges are formed with movable pins to enable the cover to be totally removed from the stand. An opening from the outside communicates with the super, so that the bees can find exit without passing through the stock hive. The flight-hole can be narrowed as in the previous instance.
The annexed cut shows a new cover of simple and inexpensive construction. In it any of our frame hives can be placed. The stock hive here exhibited is the one referred to on [page 141], as "The Cottager's Improved Frame Hive." The advantage in having the stock hive independent of the cover and stand, and on its own floor-board, is that the hive is more easily stocked and more manageable in other respects than those that have hive, stand, and cover all in one, as is the case with the Philadelphia, Cheshire's, and Abbott's hives.
The drawing shows the outward construction so well that little further explanation is needful.
§ IV. QUILTS.
Some American apiarians recommend the use of a quilt in place of a crown board, as admitting of ventilation to the hive and thus allowing the moisture to pass off. Quilts are made of some soft woollen material or a piece of carpet. Care must be exercised that the maggots of other insects do not find a home underneath, or a hotbed will by that means be provided for bees' worst enemies.