BEE-BOXES. 89 



As the boxes and boards require to be made 

 with great accuracy, that they may be nicely 

 adapted to each other, a good joiner should be 

 employed to construct them ; for if there be any 

 crevices the bees will, according to their invariable 

 custom, fill them with propolis, and thereby waste 

 their valuable time. The square boxes which I 

 have described are the simplest of any, in their 

 form : some persous prefer the octagon or hexa- 

 gon form ; in some situations, if windows be placed 

 in the three posterior sides, those forms may be 

 more convenient for exhibiting the operations of 

 the bees, or the store of honey in the combs ; but 

 they are more expensive and more cumbrous, if 

 made as capacious as the square ones ; and these 

 latter answer the intended purposes so well, as to 

 satisfy completely those who have used them. 

 Although I have endeavoured to give a clear de- 

 scription of the form and mode of constructing a 

 bee-box and its appendages, probably it may be 

 more satisfactory to young beginners to obtain a 

 sight or a model of them, I refer them therefore 

 to Mr. Hughes, joiner, Ross, Herefordshire, or to 

 Mr. John Milton, 10, Great Marybone Street. 



I cannot dismiss this part of my subject, with- 

 out saying a few words respecting the hive of 

 Huish, which is contrived with the view of allow- 

 ing the removal of the exterior bars, that support 

 the honey-combs, without disturbing the brood- 



