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" Storifying means the piling of hives or boxes 

 upon each other, (as shown in plate x, fig. 25,) and 

 preserving a free communication between them ; a 

 methojd which enables the apiarian to take wax and 

 honey without destroying the lives of the bees. 



" Attempts have been made to accomplish this 

 ^object in different ways. Thorley, Jr., placed empty 

 hives or boxes over full ones ; Wildman and Keys 

 did the reverse ; White and Madame Vicat placed 

 them collaterally. Aristotle, Pliny, and other an- 

 cient writers, speak of contrivances for taking honey, 

 and inspecting the operations of the bees." 



From a pamphlet entitled " A Description of the 

 Bar and Frame Hive," invented by W. Augustus 

 Munn, Esq., published in London in 1851, (a previ- 

 ous edition having been published in 1844) I have 

 copied plate xi, fig. 26, which represents the Munn 

 hive, together with a frame separate. The frame is 

 made triangular, with a projection at either of the 



* I have seen plate x, with directions for making the " bee- 

 boxes," copied into various works, but called " Bevan's Cross- 

 bar Hive," as though it were a complete hive of itself, instead of 

 part of a hive, as described by Bevan himself. He (Bevan) has 

 thus (in my opinion) been misrepresented, as advocating small 

 hives, whereas, it is shown, as in plate x, fig. 25, as well as implied 

 throughout both of the chapters above referred to, that two or 

 more of these boxes are always used in combination, as shown in 

 the plate, thus making a hive even larger than I advocate. 



