HIVES. 



p. 0-3, where B B are doors, one of which is glazed, and A a pipe 

 of tin or caoutchouc, by which the bees have ingress and egress. 



194. Hives have been constructed of different materials, as straw, 

 osiers, rushes, sedges, wood, and earthenware ; and of still more 

 various forms, some being bell-shaped or conical, some cylindrical, 

 some square in their section, some with rectangular and some with 

 oblique tops, being internally divided by comb-frames fixed or 

 movable, by shelves, and other expedients. 



Their forms of structure depend in some degree upon the object 

 of the proprietors. When apiculture is prosecuted on a large 

 scale for the produce of honey and wax, as articles of trade, the 

 foreign cultivators prefer hives of the most simple forms and 

 most easy construction, and those from which the products can be 

 obtained with most facility. The material preferred is, generally, 

 straw or rushes. The process of making such a hive is indicated 

 in fig. 57. 



Fig. 57. Process of making 

 a straw hive. 



Fig. 61. Movable comb- 

 frame of the village 

 hive. 



Fig. 50. Top of the 

 cylindrical body of 

 the village hive. 



195. The bell-shaped straw hive, called the village hive, repre- 

 sented on the right of fig. 58, p. 49, is cylindrical in the body, 

 and surmounted by a bell-shaped cap. The top of the cylindrical 

 body is covered by a frame of bars, shown separately in fig. 59 

 and the cap itself is shown in fig. 60. 



Fig. GO. Cap of the 



Fig. 62.-Dewhufs hive. 



One of the movable comb-frames is shown in fig. 61, where A 

 is the vertical. section of the stage, shown by plan in fig. 59 ; B 

 the uprights, and c a shelf shown in vertical section. 



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