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amation of all such as are acquainted with the value 

 and economy of Bees. 



An advocate of the story ing system says, <{ No 

 cause exists why a certain number of stories should 

 not be placed, for several months, and even for a 

 jear; that much is gained by it, provided, for this 

 period of time, the boxes are made of a convenient 

 and proper size," &c. To this system, Mr. HuisL 

 is lengthy and particular in his objections ; the amount 

 of which is, that the flat hives used in this process, 

 are injurious to the health, and even life of the Bees, 

 and principally on account of the moisture which the 

 swarm emits by perspiration, being collected upon 

 the tops of the hives, and there being condensed by 

 the influence of the cold air, falls again upon the 

 Bees, and occasions their worst malady, the dysentery. 

 These vapours, Mr. Huish found actually frozen to a 

 sheet of ice in the top of one of his glass hives, in 

 the hard winter of 1814, and at once concludes this 

 vapour to be both noxious and destructive to the 

 swarm. He then proceeds, " Hives with convex tops 

 conduct this condensed vapour down the sides of the 

 hives, and thus screen the swarm from the falling 

 drops, and preserve them dry." The writer con- 

 cludes this chapter with the following description 

 of a hive of his own invention, for his own particu- 

 lar use, which pleased him, and has the strength of 

 his recommendation added to its value. 



" Having now examined the different hives which 

 are now in use in this country, (England,) and upon 

 the continent, it barely remains for me to describe the 

 hive, which, although its general principles are of an 

 early date, yet its improvements have been entirely 

 suggested by myself. As it has always been my 

 Invariable study to preserve the lives of these valua- 

 ble insects, and, at the same time, to reap the great- 

 est possible advantage from their labours, the se- 

 lection of a proper abode for them, was a matter of 

 no secondary consideration ; for on this must depend 



