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THE BEE-HIVES. 



The bees then continued their constructions downwards. 

 To separate the sections from one another, they used a wire 

 that cut the combs. Butler, in his " Feminine Monarchy," 

 ICt'.'A, shows hives composed of four sections, piled upon one 

 another. Palteau, in 17.50, advises bee-keepers to use a 

 perforated ceiling at the top of each section. Radouan, in 

 1H21, instead of a perforated ceiling, uses triangular bars, 

 to which the bees attach their combs (flg. 49). Chas. 

 Soria, in 184.5, used these bars at the bottom of each 

 story as well as at the top, with bee space between, so that 

 they can be removed, exchanged, or reversed, Without 

 crushing any bees, or damaging a single cell (flg. 60). 



Fig. fjO. 



EKE OF CHAS. SORIA. 



(From Hamet.) 



Flg. .■)!. 



DrvmnsiG hive of jonas 



DE GELIEU. 

 (From Hamet.) 



279. Other Apiarists divided their hives vertically, con- 

 formably with the shape of the combs of the bees, which 

 hang vertically. If we are correctly informed, it was Jonas 

 de Gelieu who inaugurated this style (fig. .51). He made 

 his hive divisible into only two parts. (Ettl, towards the 

 middle of this century, made a straw hive divided into three 

 vertical parts. The main advantage of these hives resides 

 in the facility of dividing them for artificial swarming. But 

 as this method of making artificial .swarms is defective, as 

 will be shown further, (471), and as all these contri- 



