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any portion thereof, without at all interfering with 

 the other combs of the hive, or materially disturbing 

 its general economy. The leaves from between which 

 a remove has been made, should be either brought 

 immediately, but carefully, together, or have a spare 

 supernumerary leaf interposed between them." 



Plate ix, fig. 22, represents one of the frames of 

 the Huber hive. Fig. 23 is the Huber hive itself, 

 composed of eight frames, and showing the hooks and 

 eyes which secure it behind, each frame being se- 

 cured in front by movable hinges. Each external 

 frame must have a glazed door, covered by a shutter. 

 These are not shown in the figtire. 



" It will be evident that the Huber hives here de- 

 lineated are designed for an out-door apiary. For a 

 bee-house or shed their construction may be simpli- 

 fied, particularly as respects the cappings, which are 

 merely intended as protections from the weather." 



BEVAN'S "BEE-BOXES." 



Doctor Bevan recommends bee-boxes to be made 

 " eleven and five-eighths inches square, by nine inches 

 deep, in the dear. The sides of the boxes should be 

 an inch thick, and have the upper edges of the fronts 

 and backs rabbeted out half their thickness and half 

 an inch deep, to receive a set of loose bars upon their 

 tops, (see plate x, fig. 24) which should be half an 

 inch thick, one and one-eighth of an inch wide, and 

 seven in number. If the distances of the bars from 

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