20 HIVES. 



put off till quite sure it would do no longer, and some- 

 times a few days after that, when you will very often 

 find your bees past remedy. 



SEE BEES OFTEN. 



" See your bees often," is a choice recipe, — it is worth 

 five hundred dollars at interest, even when you have 

 but few stocks. How necessary then that we have 

 every facility for a close and minute inspection. How 

 much easier to turn up a hive that simply rests on a 

 stand. Sometimes it is necessary to turn the hive 

 even bottom up, and let the rays of the sun directly 

 among the combs, to see all the particulars. By this 

 close inspection, I have often ascertained the cause of 

 some difficulty, and provided a remedy, thus saving a 

 good many that in a short time would have been lost ; 

 yet, with a little help, were as valuable as any by 

 another year. 



hall's patent. 

 Mr. Hall has added a lower section to his hive, 

 about four inches deep, with two boards inside, like 

 the roof of a house, to discharge the worms, &c. ; but 

 as these boards would interfere with close inspection, 

 they are objectionable. Several other variations of 

 inclined bottom-boards and suspended hives have 

 been contrived, to obtain a patent, but the objections 

 offered will apply to most of them. I shall not weary 

 the reader by noticing in detail every hive that has 

 been patented ; I think if I notice the principles of each 

 kind, it will test his patience sufficiently. 



