In this description, I shall suppose that the frames desired are of the form and size (Fig. 35) which I use. It will be easy, for any who may desire, to change the form at pleasure. For the top-bar (Fig. 35, _a_) of the frame, use a triangular strip twelve and three-quarter inches long, with each face of the triangle one inch across. Seven-eighths of an inch from each end of this, form a shoulder, by sawing from one angle to within one-fourth of an inch of the opposite face, so that when the piece is split out from the end, these projections shall be just one-fourth of an inch thick throughout. For the side pieces (Fig. 35, _b, b_), take strips eleven inches long, seven-eighths of an inch wide, and one-fourth of an inch thick. Tack with small brads the end of two of these strips firmly to the shoulder of the top-bar, taking pains that the end touches squarely against the projection. Now tack to the opposite ends or bottoms, the ends of a similar strip (Fig. 35, _d_) eleven and a half inches long. We shall thus have a square frame. [Illustration: Fig. 35.] If comb-foundation is to be used, and certainly it will be by the enterprising apiarist, then the top-bar (Fig. 36, _a_) should be twelve and three-quarters inches by one-quarter by one inch, with a rectangular, instead of a triangular, projection below (Fig. 36, _b_), which should be one-fourth by one-eighth inch, the longest direction up and down. This should be entirely to one side of the centre, so that when the foundation (Fig. 36, _c_) is pressed against this piece it will hang exactly from the centre of the top-bar. If preferred, the bottom of the frame (Fig. 36, _e_) need not be more than half as wide or thick as described above. The timber should be thoroughly seasoned, and of the best pine or white-wood. Care should be taken that the frame be made so as to hang vertically, when suspended on the rabbets of the hive. To secure this very important point--true frames that will always hang true--they should always be made around a guide. [Illustration: Fig. 36. _Frame, also Cross-Section of Top-Bar._] A BLOCK FOR MAKING FRAMES.