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same writer says — " Movable frame hives may be made with- 

 out buying a patent, by making a chest of the capacity of one 

 bushel, say fifteen inches square inside, and make ten frames 

 of strips of board an inch and a half wide, nailed together 

 flatwise at the ends, so as to form sashes that will set in the 

 box and just fill it; bore holes for the entrance of the bees 

 through the sides of the box and frames ; the lid of the chest 

 shuts tight and may be locked. When you wish to draw a 

 frame, insert a common wood screw or two to pull it out by. 

 You can tell, as you lift it, whether it is full or not ; if not, 

 try another." 



Now, if this writer knew any more about bees than a wild 

 bushman knows of algebra, he must have written this pur- 

 posely to deceive. It will be noticed that the hive is fifteen 

 inches in the clear, ten frames one and a half inches will just 

 fill it, making a solid lining for the hive. Any one who ever 

 saw the inside of a hive knows that bees, in such a hive, would 

 never build their combs, each in a separate frame. They 

 might possibly build them across the hive from side to side ; 

 but, in ninety-nine cases in a hundred, they would build them 

 diagonally from one corner to the opposite. We should sup- 

 pose it would require not only one screw but a number, and 

 those powerful ones, to lift one of the frames after the bees 

 had possession, as they fill with propolis every joint and crev- 

 ice in the hive. 



We have alluded to these cases of false information, simply 

 because we have known instances of people putting in practice 

 some of these absurd theories, and, -having failed (as any in- 

 telligent bee keeper would have known at the start,) condemn 

 all improved hives and give up bee keeping, or return to the 

 old method of destroying the bees with sulphur ; and if any 

 person keeping bees wilfully shuts his eyes and refuses to 

 learn from his own experience and that of others how to 

 manage bees, we think destroying his weaker swarms in the 

 fall is about the best for himself and bees, which he can do. 

 He would then save his best, and of course his strongest 



