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vation chamber. They are fastened by hooks to the super cover, and 

 are easily isolated or carried to any distance. I have carried a one- 

 frame with the queen, and about five thousand workers and one hun- 

 dred drones, to the four normal schools in the State of Michigan. I 

 spent a week at three of these schools and a day at the fourth. 

 When the frame was not in use before public audiences, the bees 

 went out to view the country and to gather material. The hive was 

 placed on the lawn, or by an open window in schoolroom or in my 

 room at the hotel, and the sliding wire net before the entrance at the 

 lower part of one end was drawn out. When I arrived home the 

 entire swarm was in better condition than it was when I started. 



A large reading glass, preferably one five inches in diameter, makes more interesting and easier to 



observe all the activities of the hive. 



Magnifying Feeder: — This is regarded by many persons as the 

 most original, novel and interesting part of the hive. It is fully 

 described in the booklet previously mentioned. 



Fixing Cage: — Three sides of this are of glass, the fourth being 

 of wire netting. Ordinary frames may be placed in it, but it is made 

 of special depth so that rustic sticks may be placed on supports, so 

 that the bees may build natural combs, and not the shallow, square- 

 cornered combs of the artificial frames. When thus used separately 

 with the exit open into the free air (not into the main portion of the 

 hive) it becomes an observation box hive, or the interior of the 

 original bee tree, with combs on any sort of sticks, and of any length 



