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There is ample room mider, above, and between the two tiers of 

 frames in the flying cage for any form or for several forms of base 

 feeders such as the Page, or the Miller. 



Between the one frame and the two frame hives at the top of the 

 main division are two glass-jar feeders, in which the bees are suck- 

 ing downwards (feeding from underside) the syrup. In all others 

 they are sucking it upwards (feeding from top). The hive as a 

 whole is designed to be set up at some distance from the window or 

 other exit through the wall of a building, for temporary exhibition at 

 a fair, a museum or for special visitors' day at a school (when it is 

 not convenient to take a large number of visitors to the regular loca- 

 tion of the hive in another part of the building). 



In devising this form, I have had in mind also an exhibition in 

 the center of large stores. To the store keeper this would be a novel 

 and excellent advertisement to attract people to the store, to the 

 apiarist a source of income for the placing, and the renting of the 

 hive and contents, and to the advancement of bee-keeping, because 

 producing an increased interest on the part of the public. 



Body of Hive: — This holds ten regular frames, a "base of sup- 

 plies," a brood chamber and force of bees. One side of each of the 

 two outside frames is visible. It is recommended that stored honey 

 in full (as in the illustration) be shown in this. 



Observation Chamber: — Designed especially to show processes of 

 queen rearing. This chamber is of extra depth, and the glass (as in 

 body and super) are readily removable. Frames may be taken out 

 or put in at the side. These chambers (two made by an especially 

 deep padded division board) are automatically filled or emptied (as 

 are the one frame and two frame " travelling hives " above the 

 super). This is done by a system of slides — a long slide covering 

 plain slot and a Porter bee-escape slot in base of chamber to be filled, 

 and a long plain slot corresponding in length to both above it, in the 

 base below the operating chamber. 



When the slide, in the base of the operating chamber is out, bees 

 go in or out. When the slide is half way in, bees go out only; and 

 by pushing the slide fully in, bees go neither in nor out. Thus one 

 or more brood-frames in either chamber may be isolated or emptied 

 of bees by manipulating this slide. The same principle is applied to 

 the bases of the one-frame and the two-frame travelhng hives and 

 to the magnifying feeder. 



Super: — This has thirty-two full sections, each four by five inches, 

 the entire one side of eight being plainly visible. 



One-Frame and Two-Frame Travelling Hives: — These have the 

 automatic filling, emptying and isolating devices by a system of two 

 slots, two slides and bee-escape, as explained under the head of obser- 



