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THE HONEY-BEE. 



by rotating the hive, and the different classes of the 

 population can be studied, and their work surveyed 

 in security and continuously. 



The unicomb hive may be stocked in various ways. 

 The simplest plan is to take from a bar-frame hive 

 the comb on which the queen is, and put it into the 

 unicomb hive with as many more empty frames as 

 will fill all the space intended for their reception. 



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Fig. 59.— Unicomb Observatory Hive. 



In this way new clean comb will be made, giving a 

 much better appearance to the colony. Another 

 plan is to take brood-comb in frames sufficient in 

 number to fill the hive at once. The bees will then 

 make a queen for themselves, and the interesting 

 process may be watched in all its stages, provided, of 

 course, that there are some freshly-laid worker-eggs 

 in the cells. 



It is not advisable to try to keep the bees alive 

 in an observatory hive during the winter, because so 



