If the upper story shuts over the lower and rests on a shoulder (Fig. 29) it may still be made to take the same sized frame, by nailing pieces one-half an inch square to the corners, whose length shall equal the distance from the rabbet in the lower story to the bottom board. Now nail to these upright pieces, parallel to the rabbeted faces below, a three-eighths inch board as wide as the pieces are long. The top of these thin boards will take the place of the rabbet in the lower story. This style, which is adopted in the two-story hives as made by Mr. Langstroth (Fig. 29), will permit in the upper story the same frames as used in the lower story, while two more can be inserted. Upon this upper story a shallow cover will rest. Such covers, if desired, may be made roof-like (Fig. 34), by cutting end pieces, (Fig 34, b) in form of the gable of a house. In this case there will be two slanting boards (Fig. 34, _a, a_), instead of one that is horizontal, to carry off the rain. The slanting boards should project at the ends (Fig. 34, _d_), for convenience in handling. In such covers we need thin, narrow ridge-boards (Fig. 34, _c_), to keep all perfectly dry. These covers look neat, are not so apt to check, and will dry much quicker after a rain. [Illustration: Fig. 34.] If we secure comb-honey in crates, and winter out-doors--in which case we shall need to protect in the Northern States--it will be convenient to have a box of the same general form as the main body of the hive, from six to eight inches deep, just large enough to set over the body of the hive and rest on shoulder-strips, and without top or bottom; this to have such a cover as just described. Such is the arrangement of Southard and Ranney, of Kalamazoo, which, on the score of simplicity and convenience, has much to recommend it. In the above I have said nothing about porticos (Fig. 29). If hives are shaded as they should be, these are useless, and I believe that in no case will they pay. To be sure, they are nice for spider-webs, and a shady place in which bees may cluster; but such are inconvenient places to study the wondrous fabrics of the spider, even were he a friend of the bees, and the most successful apiarist will not force his bees to hang in idle clusters about the hive. THE FRAMES.