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RULE I. 



ON THP: construction of a BEE-HIVK. 



A bee-hive should be made of sound boards, 

 free from shakes and cracks ; it should also 

 be planed smooth, inside and out, made in a 

 workmanlike manner, and painted on its out- 

 side. 



REMARKS. 



That a bee-hive should be made perf(«t, 

 so as to exclude light and air, is obvious from 

 the fact, that the bees will finish what tlie 

 workman has neglected, by plastering up all 

 such cracks and crevices, or bad joints, as are 

 left open by the joiner. The substance they 

 use for this purpose is neither honey nor wax, 

 but a kind of glue or cement of their own man- 

 ufacturing, and is used by the bees to fill up 

 all imperfect joints and exclude all light and 

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