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of exchanging the hive is so easy, that we should be con- 

 tent to place a stock in one, say, from April to Septem- 

 ber, and shift it in the autumn. Such a hive is a very 

 pleasing object of interest, as in it the whole common- 

 wealth of bees is exposed, to view ; and the hive need not 

 be obscured from daylight, provided it be protected from 

 sun and rain. All the external wood-work is of oak- 

 colour, varnished, so that the appearance of the Glass 

 Bar and Frame Hive is extremely neat and much 

 approved of. 



FRAMES. 



As before mentioned, each 

 stock-hive has ten of these frames 

 — each thirteen inches long, by 

 seven and a quarter inches high, 

 with a five-eighths of an inch projection at each upper 

 end, which rests in the notch, either back or front. 

 The width, both of the bar and frame, is seven-eighths 

 of an inch ; this is less, by a quarter of an inch, than the 

 bar recommended by the older apiarians. Mr. Wood- 

 bury — whose authority on the modern plans for keeping 

 bees is of great weight — finds the seven-eighths of an 

 inch bar an improvement, because with them the combs 

 are closer together, and require fewer bees to cover the 

 brood. Then, too, in the same space that eight old- 

 fashioned bars occupied, the narrower frames admit of 

 an additional bar, so that, by using these, increased. 



