BEE-KEEPER S MANUAL. 



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In regard to causing the bees to build their combs 

 with regularity, it is truly important to devise some 

 method to produce such a result, and the only effectual 

 method that can be practiced without trouble, will be 

 given when I come to speak of my own hives, or such 

 as were planned by me. 



I condemn Dr. Bevan's hive, on account of its bars, 

 and also on account of its size. Put three inches more 

 on its depth and take out the bars, and it would then 

 answer the purpose very well. 



SUBTENDED HIVE. 



Here is a cut of a kind of hive that is in use to some 

 extent in this country. This is also from Bevan's work ; 

 and the size of each box is presumed to be the same as 

 the bar-hive, viz : eleven and five-eighths inches deep, 

 by nine inches wide. Through the two lower boxes, 

 holes about four inches square are cut, with a slide to 



