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will prolong the cells and make the combs of greater thick- 
ness when intended only for storing honey, than they would 
if intended for rearing brood. 
There are twenty-four combs in the hive when expanded 
to its greatest capacity, and as each frame contains a super- 
ficies of 9 in. X 8 = 72 square inches, the whole of the combs 
in the brood box occupy a superficial space on each side of 
1728 square inches. When this space, or nearly as much, 
has been well built up and filled with combs and bees, the 
stopper at the top being taken out, an entrance igs opened 
through a wooden grating to the honey box placed above it, 
by which it is expected that the dame or mother-bee will 
be prevented from entering this box, so that only virgin 
honey will be stored in it. 
Following the example of the German model, I at first 
made the honey box with outer wooden and internal glazed 
sashes, &e., just like the stock or brood hive; but, in con- 
sidering the subject, I found that I was going to a needless 
cost in this respect, and I now make them much more simple 
and inexpensive, as in the one I now exhibit. 
The false bottom of the lower box, being formed of separate 
thin boards, can be easily taken out, either for the purpose 
of cleaning out the dead bees and other refuse in spring, or 
for introducing a shallow feeder at that season, whilst the 
stops at each end keep any bees from escaping below the 
glazed sashes. 
The lighting-board is made to take off, in order not to be 
inconvenient in travelling; and if the hive be moved when 
peopled with bees, by fixing a piece of pierced zinc in front 
of the entrance, as well as over the opening on the opposite 
side, a thorough draught can be established to keep the hive 
cool on a journey. 
I have thus explained the construction of the improved 
German hive, and I have here some varieties of structure 
adapted for particular purposes and operations. I believe that 
the more practically acquainted any one is with bee man- 
agement, the more he will appreciate the complete control 
over a stock of bees afforded by these hives. To pretend to 
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