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5i|lerAciits for Bee C^lti^^e withPirectiQiis for their Use. 



A. I. ROOT, MEDINA, O., IV3AY Jst, 1878. 





No. 1 shows a Simpliciry Hive, single story, with the Enameled Cloth removed, so as to show the 

 10 iVan.es iu |>lacc. The Chaff Ciihhion is shown in the cover, where it is fastened hv g or 10 tacks 

 arrnnd the edge. You v.ill observe that when the Cushion is thus fastened in the cover, we 

 jire oblig-fd to have the Enameled Cloth, shown at No. 8, fitted closely over the irames that the 

 lees ma> not. get to the Cushion, or it \vo\ilcl he stuck so tightly to the'frames that we could never 

 pet the hive .>'"n. For winterinis. a much thicker cushion is »ised, unquilted, and placed in au 

 upper St' vy. This Hive is shown witii the entrance closed, bv inishing it back squarely on the bot- 

 tom bo:ii'i, while Nos. 2 and 3 .ire pushed forward so as to give a % inch passage for the bees. No. 



