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port the cover, whicli is to be made of the same breadth. Tliis spout is to 

 pass from the hive throu;;h the walls of the building, sloping at an angle of 

 twenty-two degrees until it projects one inch, a, plate 1, fig. ], and rests on 

 the lighting-stool, b, wliicli must be equally sloping, and into which the low- 

 er end of the spout must be sunk to the top of its floor ; the upper end fitted 

 to the lower surface of the cement, or metallic floor, three inches from the in- 

 side of the walls ; at which place a perpendicular mortise must be made, B, 

 plate 2, fig. 1, through the cement floor, 4 1-2 inches long, crosswise of the 

 spout, and one inch wide. The angle, or space remaining in the grooves of 

 the spout beyond or above the mortise, should be filled. Every part of the 

 Bpout, before it is put together, is to be washed with the above mentioned 

 white-wash. It must be well fitted into the walls, and set in mortar. Tlie 

 spout may be made of composition. One foot above the lighting-stool is to 

 be a board, r, f, one foot wide, sloping twenty-two degrees, intended to shel- 

 ter the bees. Once in ten feet, along the lower story, is to be a ventilator, d ; 

 secured on the outside by a shutter, and on the inside by a screen of wire or 

 thin perforated metal, fine enough to exclude the bee-moth. 



When it is intended to multiply artificial swarms, a kind of balcony, or 

 frame, c, one foot square, should be attached at the lower extremity of the 

 spout, projecting four inches, secured on the outside by two L;!iuttrrs,_/,/, the 

 lower one to be hung at the bottom with hinges, so as to serve when open fiDr 

 a Ighting-stool ; the upper one to be hung at the top on pivots, — the upper 

 edge being rounded and fitted to roll in a half circle, made in the fr.xme. In 

 the centre" of the upper shutter is to bo a screen,/, inserted of half its size, to 

 serve as a ventilator; the upper shutter to close upon the Io\v.ir one by a rab- 

 bet. In case the wall should be of br.ck, or sutficiently thick, the frame 

 should be sunk rather than projected ; and in either case the sj^out should ex- 



tend no further than the inside of the frame. These shutters are useful for 

 the greater sccuritv of the bees when they are not suthciently numerous to 

 keep guard at the end of the spout, — consequently they should be kept closed 

 it nicrht during the season of the moth's depredation. In case of multiply- 

 ino-, the bees should pass and repass through the same spout ; which should, 

 consequently, be proportionably larger. The hives should be about sixteen 

 nches square, and of any required height; without doors, or mouths, because 

 ,hey set on the board, plate ',i, fig. 14, which is to be made precisely the same 

 13 the cover to the top of the hive, (and should be v/ashed with the .above 

 named white-wash,) with the addition of a mortise corresponding with the 

 mortise in the cement floor, two inches from tlie wall, plate 2, fig. 2, for "tlje 

 convenience of securing them at the bottom with plaster lime. The top of 

 ♦ he hive should be provided with two parallel bars, /r, plate III. fig. 3, one 

 inch square, placed 1 1-2 inches from the centre, for the purpose of support- 

 ing the cover. Plate III. fig. 1, which is to be made of a board 1-4 of an inch 

 in thickness, — thirteen inches of the centre is to be divided into nine equal 

 squares, with a mortise in tlie centre of each, 2 1-2 inches long, and 3-4 wide. 

 Opposite the centre of each mortise, at the distance of one fourth of an inch 

 from each side, is to be a hole three tourths of an inch in diameter. Over this 

 IS to be placed an adapter, pl:Ue 3, fig. 2, three fourths of an inch thick, with 

 iroles 2 7-8 inches in dianieter corresponding with the holes in the cover. In 

 the holes of the adapter are to be inserted the mouths of glass quart specie 

 jars, to be covered v/ith a suitable bcx, or cover, to exclude the light wlide the 

 bees are at work in them. At the approach of cold weather the bottles 

 should be removed, to prevent the ranfied air from condensing and de- 

 stroying the bees, and the hiyes should be again covered with the same 

 box. 



