10 AN EASY EETHOD OF 



The door to the chamber should be made 

 to fit in the rabitlngs of the same against the 

 jambs. In such a manner as to exclude the 

 light from the windows of the drawers, and al- 

 so to prevent the entrance of the little ants. 

 It should also be hung by butts, or fastened 

 by a bar, running vertically across the centre 

 of the door, and confined by staples at each 

 end. There should be three sheet-iron shdes, 

 one of which should be nearly as wide as the 

 chamber, and one or two inches longer than 

 the length of the chamber. The other two 

 should be the same length of the first, and 

 half its width only. 



All hives and all their appendages should 

 he made exactly of a size and shape in the 

 same apiary. The trouble of equalizing col- 

 onies is far less than it is to accommodate 

 hives to swarms. Much perplexity and some- 

 times serious difficulties occur, where the ap- 

 iarian uses different sized hives and drawers. 

 But this part of the subject will be more ful- 

 V discussed under its proper rule. 



