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from front to rear as would naturally be inferred 
from the sketch. It is a hive which has been fully 
described not on'y in Mr. Cheshire’s own work, 
“Practical Bee-Keeping,” and in the apiarian columns 
of the Country, to which he is a contributor, but also 
in Mr. Hunter’s “Manual of Bee-Keeping,” and in 
the new edition of the ‘“ Encyclopedia Britannica.” 
We need therefore make no apology for proceeding 
to a considerable extent upon the line of the de- 
scription prepared by its inventor. 
It is one of the hives which carry their own cover 
and stand—at least as here represented, for the stand 
can be had ina detached form if preferred, as Mr. 
Cheshire concludes it will be by the generality of bee- 
keepers. The body of the hive consists of two main 
portions—the super-cover and the hive proper. In 
front of the lower part is the porch, the roof of which, 
consisting of a stout piece of pine about three inches 
wide, runs completely along the hive face. This is 
chamfered off towards the end, the more effectually to 
carry away drip, and has a channel near its front edge 
as a gutter to convey the rain to its ends. For many 
of these particulars we must refer to the sectional 
view as illustrated by a block used in Mr. Cheshire’s 
frequently quoted volume, and kindly placed at our 
service by Mr. Leonard Gill, the Manager of the 
Country. In this figure the gutter referred to is 
shown at E. The floor-board projects two and a half 
inches in front so as to form a convenient alighting- 
board, ten inches of the central portion being grooved 
(see first figure), so that, in case of a driving rain, the 
convex parts will still give the bees a dry passage to 
