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THE APIAEIJ OK, 



NEIGHBOUE'S IMPEOYED SINGLE BOX HIVE. Wo. 2. 



We have introduced the " Single Box 

 Hive" to suit the convenience of those 

 who, though desirous of keeping bees on 

 the improved principle, do not wish to 

 incur the expense or devote the space 

 which is necessary for Nutt's hive. 



It consists of a lower or stock-box A., 

 11 inches square, 9 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-glass 9 inches wide, 6 inches deep. 

 E is the ventilator between the glass and the 

 stock-hive, intended to prevent the queen 

 travelling into the super hive, and also by 

 cooling the hive to endeavour to prevent 

 swarming; a sloping pagoda roof with an 

 acorn top completes the upper story. A 

 floor-board with a block front, as in Nutt's 

 coUateraljforms 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 to be procured from a distance, and is transported 

 by rail or other conveyance, a perforated zinc slide should be sub- 

 stituted for the plain slide that covers the top, and a large piece of 

 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, because bees, though they provision themselves for 



