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The Cottager's Hive is simply that of the form we find in use 

 in most parts of the country, where the industrious cottagers or 

 their wives, by a little attention to their interesting little labourers, 

 are enabled to add something to their usually scanty earnings. 

 This kind of hive is usually made of straw, resting on a circular 

 wooden board, with part of the board or floor projecting in front 

 as a landing-place for the bees, which enter under the edge of the 

 straw by means of a sinking in the floor. 



Taylor's Amateur's Bee-Hive consists of three small square 

 boxes, one above another, with a roof over the top story, the ven- 

 tilation being effected by perforations under the eaves ; each side 

 of every story has a window and shutter. The landing-place is 

 in front of the bottom story, and the entrance to the hive is a 

 long slit about three-quarters of an inch high. 



The Glass Hive, or Ladies' Observatory Hive, is similar to that 

 in which the bees are at work in Mr. Neighbour's Apiary 

 already mentioned, but on account of the number of bees at work 

 therein, and the extent of comb already effected, the interior 

 perches cannot be seen. These wooden perches are arranged in 

 parallel lines, leaving a space next the glass ail round, the whole 

 being framed together with a bar at right angles, and resting on 

 an upright support in the middle. 



The Improved Cottage Hive of the same exhibitor consists of a 

 straw circular lower compartment, having windows and outside 

 shutters. A thermometer is placed just inside one of the windows. 

 The floor is of wood, with a landing-place and sunken way, as 

 already mentioned in some of the other hives. In the top, which 

 is also of wood, are three circular perforations, each of about two 

 inches in diameter, above which are placed as many bell-glasses. 

 There is a small hole in the top of each of the glasses, through which 

 a perforated tubular trunk is inserted for the sake of taking off the 

 moisture from the interior of the hive. Within the glass is a feeding- 

 trough of zinc, circular in shape, with a floating perforated floor, 

 on which the bees alight, and in the winter season regale them- 



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