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be an opening along the whole front three inches high. 

 Rest the edge of a board, two or three feet square, 

 on the floor of the hive; on this hoard place the 

 common hive, into which the bees have been re- 

 ceived on swarming ; give a smart stroke on the 

 top, and the bees will fall down ; remove the com- 

 mon hive, and they will hurry as if for shelter into 

 the other, and in a few minutes the whole will be 

 ensconced in their new habitation. Should they lin- 

 ger longer than is convenient, a puff or two of smoke 

 will cause them to ascend with great speed. A guide- 

 comb must be fixed in this hive, before peopling it. 

 Since this work was ready for the press, the writer 

 has seen a Treatise on Bees, by Mr. Nutt, a gentle- 

 man of Lincolnshire, in which he describes and re- 

 commends a hive of his own invention. It consists 

 of three boxes, placed collaterally, each twelve inches 

 square and nine inches deep. The central one, which 

 is, somewhat affectedly called " the Pavilion of Na- 

 ture," constitutes the grand breeding apartment ; 

 while the other two, to which there is access from 

 the pavilion by horizontal openings made in the ends 

 for that purpose, form the chief honey magazines. In 

 the management of this hive, the pavilion is left un- 

 touched, and the wings, or collateral boxes only appro- 

 priated. When the population of the central box, at 

 the beginning of summer, has increased to such a de- 

 gree as to raise the internal temperature to 100 de- 

 grees of Fahrenheit, the slides inserted between the 

 centre and end boxes are drawn up, and access to the 

 latter given to the bees ; by which means the temper- 



