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a great extent, supplied with those so deficient, that they 
only : 
“Keep the word of promise to our ear, 
To break it to our hope.” 
Men may, to a certain extent, resist the injurious influences 
of foul air; as their employments usually compel them to live 
more out of doors: but alas, alas! for the poor women! In 
the very land where they are treated with such merited de- 
ference and respect, often no provision is made to furnish 
them with that first element of health, cheerfulness, and 
beauty, heaven’s pure, fresh air. 
OssEeRvinG Hives. 
374. For nearly a century, hives have been in use con- 
taining only one comb, inclosed on both sides by glass. 
These hives are darkened by shutters, and, when opened, the 
queen is as much exposed to observation as the other bees. 
Mr. Langstroth has discovered that, with proper precau- 
tions, colonies can be made to work in observing-hives, even 
when exposed continually to the full light of day; so that 
observations may be made at ail times, without interrupting 
by any sudden admission of light, the ordinary operations 
of the bees. In such hives, many intelligent persons from 
various States in the Union have seen the queen-bee depos- 
iting her eggs in the cells, while surrounded by an affection- 
ate circle of her devoted children. They have also witnessed 
with astonishment and delight, all the mysterious steps in 
the process of raising queens from eggs, which with the 
ordinary development would have produced only the com- 
mon bees. Often for more than three months, there has 
not been a day in our Apiary, in ‘which some colonies were 
not engaged in rearing new queens to supply tle place of 
those taken from them; and we have had the pleasure o/ 
