THE BEE. 



movable comb-frames, with glazed openings and other like con- 

 trivances, are used. These bee-boxes, as they are called, are- 



Fig. 75. — Vertical fi-ame of box 

 sliown in fig. 74. 



Tig. 74. — ^DebeauToy's bee-box, with 

 sloping roof and sbelves. 



infinitely various in form, and although our limits wiU not allow 

 us to enter into the details of the advantages derived from them 



Fig. 78.— Siiutter of 

 box shown in fig. 77. 



Fig, 77. — Debeauvoy's box, with 

 Tertical frames. 



by their inventors and contrivers, it will nevertheless be useful to- 

 show the forms of those most generally used. 



The common bee-box used in the South of France is shown in 

 fig. 76, p. 17, the cover c being hinged, so as to be capable of 

 being raised at pleasure. The process of transferring the bees- 

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