104 REQUISITES OP A GOOD HIVE. 



nies may be made to supply the deficiency of young ones, 

 to the mutual benefit of both. 



30. It should enable the Apiarian, when he has removed 

 the combs from a common hive, to place them with the bees, 

 brood, honey and bee-bread, in the improved hive, so that 

 the bees may be able to attach them in their natural positions- 



31. It should permit the safe and easy dislodgement of the 

 bees from the hive. 



This requisite is especially important, when it becomes 

 necessary to break up some of the weak stocks, to join them 

 to others. 



32. It should allow the heat and odor of the main hive 

 as well as the bees themselves, to pass in the freest manner, 

 to the surplus honey receptacles. 



In this respect, all the hives with which I am acquainted, 

 are more or less deficient : the bees are forced to work in 

 receptacles difficult of access, and in which, they find it im- 

 possible, in cool nights, to keep up the animal heat neces- 

 sary for comb-building. Bees cannot, in such hives, work 

 to advantage in glass tumblers, or other small vessels. One 

 of the most important arrangements of my hive, is that by 

 which the heat ascends into all the receptacles for storing 

 honey, as naturally and almost as easily as the warmest air 

 ascends to the top of a heated room. 



33. It should permit the surplus honey to be taken away, 

 in the most convenient, beautiful and salable forms, at any 

 time, and without any risk of annoyance from the bees. 



In my hives, it may be made on frames, in tumblers, glass 

 boxes, wooden boxes small or large, earthen jars, flower- 

 pots, in short, in any kind of receptacle which may suit the 

 fancy or convenience of the bee-keeper. Or all these may 

 be dispensed with, and the honey taken from the interior of 

 the main hive, by removing the frames with loaded combs, 

 and supplying their place with empty ones. 



