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by losing a favorable opportunity of emptying themselves, 
may suffer from diseases resulting from too long confine- 
ment. 
13. It should allow the bees, together with the heat and 
odor of the main hive, to pass in the freest manner, to the 
surplus honey-receptacles. 
In this respect, many hives with which we are acquainted 
are more or less deficient ; the bees being forced to work in 
receptacles difficult of access, and in which, in cool nights, 
they find it impossible to maintain the requisite heat for 
comb-building, or, in which, in hot days, they cannot send 
air enough to make the place habitable. 
14. Each of the parts of every hive in an Apiary should 
be so made, as to be interchangeable from one hive to an- 
other. In this way, the Apiarist can readily make the 
exchanges of brood, honey, or pollen, which circumstances 
demand. 
15. The hive should permit the surplus honey to be 
taken away in the most convenient, beautiful and salable 
forms. 
16. It should be equally well adapted to be used as a 
swarmer, or non-swarmer. 
17. It should enable the Apiarist to multiply his colonies 
with a certainty and rapidity which are impossible if he 
depends on natural swarming. 
18. It should enable the Apiarist to supply destitute col- 
onies with the means of obtaining a new queen. 
19. It should enable him to catch the queen, for any 
purpose; especially to remove an old one whose fertility is 
impaired by age. 
20. It should enable a single bee-keeper to superintend 
several hundred colonies for different individuals. 
Many persons would keep bees, if an Apiary, like a gar- 
den, could be superintended by a competent individual. No 
person can agree to do this with the common hives. If the 
