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In that booklet I have briefly set forth the main points of this 

 special hive. What I have there stated regarding its advantages I 

 trust will be made clearer by the accompanying illustrations, their 

 subjoined legends, and this additional description. 



The structure is not so much a hive, which is a mere home for the 

 honey-bee; but rather a complete, elaborate, handsome apiarian appa- 

 ratus or laboratory supplied with every facility for observation, in- 

 struction and experiment. I have long been of the belief that full 

 justice — if not more than justice — has been done to cheap, home- 

 made, simple contrivances for keeping and observing these most fas- 

 cinating and useful members of the insect world. That it is an 

 expensive hive I admit. That I have purposely made it so, I also 

 admit; and I strongly advise that it be ordered only in oak or in 

 ash, the wood to be as highly polished as possible. No patent has 

 been put upon the hive and the purchaser pays only for the material 

 and the labor. I have made such arrangements with the company 

 which manufactures and places it in the market, that I am convinced 

 they are doing it without any pecuniary profit, trusting for that to 

 come from an increasing interest which this hive will excite in bees, 

 and therefore an increase in orders for the ordinary apiarian goods. 



The Complete Hive: — As set up in my laboratory, there are placed 

 in the entire hive ten frames in base, ten in observation chamber, 

 three in "travelling hives" (at top) and twelve in flying cage — thus 

 a total of thirty-five. The flying cage holds twenty frames, but it is 

 preferable to put in not over twelve — two sets of three each on each 

 support. It would be even better, perhaps, to put fewer frames in 

 the flying cage when it is used in connection with the rest of the 

 hive. 



It is also intended that usually only one frame shall be put in each 

 half of the two observation chambers. This arrangement brings 

 under full observation the outsides (half of whole frame) as follows 

 • — two in base, two in observation chamber, four in travelling hives, 

 four in flying cage. There will also be seen fairly well the inside 

 surfaces of the four frames (one of each set) nearest the center of 

 the flying cage. Thus there are visible sixteen sides of frames or 

 an equivalent in sides of an entire eight-frame ordinary hive. But 

 in actual practice, this Educational Hive gives an equivalent of two 

 eight-frame hives, fully under observation, because as the two sides 

 of any one frame are usually about the same, a full observation of 

 an ordinary hive would show eight different combs, or stages of 

 progress in the work, while this Educational Hive shows sixteen dif- 

 ferent frames under observation at once. And as has been previously 

 explained, if it is desired to crowd the hive to fairly full capacity, 

 there would be a storage or " base of supplies " in nineteen additional 



