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man next lifts up the bark on each side of this slit, 

 and detaches it from the trunk, taking care not to 

 break it, until the whole comes from the tree. 



<r The elasticity of the bark makes it assume the 

 form it had before ; the slit is sewed or pegged up 

 with wooden pins, and ends made of coiled grass 

 rope are inserted, one of which has a hole for the 

 ingress of the bees in the center, and the hive is 

 complete. These hives are placed in a horizontal 

 position on high trees in different parts of the forest, 

 and in this way all the wax exported from Benguela 

 and Loanda is collected." 



UNICOMB AND LEAF HIVES. 



"Narrow hives for experimental purposes, with 

 large glazed doors on each side, have been used by 

 amateur apiarians for many years. That of Reau- 

 mur was too wide : it allowed the construction of two 

 combs parallel to each other. This form is unfavora- 

 ble, as it precludes all observation of the proceedings 

 of the bees in the interspace between the combs, 

 Bonnet recommended a hive, the doors of which 

 should be only so far asunder as to allow the building 

 of one comb between them. This suggestion was 

 successfully adopted by Huber ; and to prevent the 

 bees from building short transverse combs, instead of 

 a single one parallel to the sides of the hive, he laid 

 the foundation himself, by fastening a piece of empty 

 comb to the ceiling of the box. 



