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quantity made available with the least possible dis- 
turbance to the bees on removal. The drawer may 
be sometimes further made useful for the purpose 
of feeding, a trough being placed in it, close up to 
the opening in the cover. A small opening or per- 
foration, at or near the bottom of the drawer, will 
give ventilation should it be needed. 
With a further view to facilitating the practice of 
under-hiving, when favourable circumstances allow of 
it, we will proceed to describe what I have termed 
a nether, which may be used 
as an adjunct to a straw or 
any other hive, as shown in 
the illustrations, Fig. 1 back 
and front. It may be of half- 
inch wood, eleven or eleven 
and a half inches square 
within, and six to seven 
inches deep, as circum- 
stances require (see Fig. 4, 
next page). It hasa window 
and shutter at the back, but 
neither a fixed top nor bottom, 
these being movable boards, 
of half-inch wood, made to 
project half an inch beyond 
the nether box; except that, 
as respects the bottom board, 
the projection is increased A — 
at the back, with a view to 
giving facilities on the removal of the nether (see 
Figs. 3 and 5). To receive and enclose the nether, 
