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or sideboard, with drawers above and a closet below, with 
glass doors. This case or bureau is designed to be placed in 
the chamber of a house, or any other suitable building, and 
connected with the open air or outside of the honse by a tube 
passing through the wall. The bees work and deposit their 
honey in drawers. When these or any of them are full, or it 
is desired to obtain honey, one or more of them may be taken 
out, the bees allowed to escape into the other parts of the hive, 
and the honey taken away. The glass doors allow the work- 
ing of the bees to be observed; and it is said that the spacious- 
ness, cleanliness, and even the more regular temperature of 
such habitations, render them the more industrious and suc- 
cessful. 
IIl—GENERAL DIRECTIONS. 
1. Swarming.—Huish, in his “Treatise on Bees,” says: 
“ The swarming of bees generally commences in June; in some 
seasons earlier, and in cold climates or seasons later. The first 
swarming is so long preceded by the appearance of drones and 
hanging out of working bees, that if the time of their leaving 
the hive is not observed it must be owing to want of care. 
The signs of the second are, however, more equivocal, the 
most certain being that of the queen, a day or two before 
swarming, at intervals of a few minutes, giving out a sound a 
good deal resembling that of a cricket. It frequently happens 
that the swarm will leave the old hive and return again several 
times, which is always owing to the queen not having accom- 
panied them, or from having dropped on the ground, being too 
young to fly to a distance. Gooseberry, currant, or other low 
bushes, should be planted at a short distance from the hives, 
for the bees to swarm upon, otherwise they are apt to fly 
away.” 
When they collect where they can not be shaken off and the 
hive can not be placed near them, they may be brushed off 
into a gauze sack, or any vessel in which they can be kept and 
carried to the hive, which should be set upon a table a little 
