NETGHBOCR-S SINGLE BOX HIVE. 6y 



It consists of a lower or stock-box a, eleven inches 

 square, nine inches deep, with three large windows, a 

 thermometer d, as in Nutt's, being fixed across the front 

 one, protected at the sides by strips of glass, to prevent 

 the bees obscuring the quicksilver from sight, b is a cover 

 the same size as the lower hive, large enough to allow 

 space for a bell-gleiss nine inches wide, six inches deep. 

 E is the ventilator between the glass and the stock-hive, in- 

 tended to prevent the queen travelling into the super hive, 

 and also, by cooling the hive, to endeavour to prevent 

 swarming; a sloping pagoda roqf, with an acorn top, com- 

 pletes the upper story. A floor-board with a block front, 

 as in Nutt's collateral, forms the base, the entrance being 

 sunk, as before described, and furnished with zinc slides 

 to reduce or close it as may be required. To stock a 

 hive of this description, it is necessary to send the stock- 

 box to the party with whom you have agreed ■ for the 

 supply of a swarm. In the evening of the day the hive 

 is thus tenanted, remove it to the position it is designed 

 permanently to occupy ; if the swarm has tp be procured 

 from a distance, and is transported by rail or other con- 

 veyance, a perforated zinc slide should be substituted for 

 the plain slide that covers the top, and a large piece or 

 perforated zinc must also be tacked to the bottom after 

 the swarm has settled in. Thus securely confined, with a 

 free circulation of air throughout, bees that have been' 

 swarmed the day before may be safely sent any distance- 

 that will allow of their being released the day after ; 



