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from several years' use, that if anything could be " got 

 up" that would obviate the necessity of such a change, 

 even if it ruined every other principle of correct man- 

 agement, money could be made by the operation, before 

 the bauble would burst. This, of course, is a gratuitous 

 assertion ; yet I may, perhaps, be able to " look as far 

 into a mill-stone," as any man. 



TWO KINDS OP SUBTENDED HIVES. 



There are two kinds of these " subtended " humbugs 

 now offered to bee-keepers in the vicinity of New York, 

 and to what extent they are used, I cannot say. 

 One kind is on the principle of the foregoing cut, as I 

 before stated, and the other only varies from the first, 

 in substituting drawers, that slide in and out in a frame. 

 The size of these drawers is somewhat smaller, I think, 

 than the boxes that are placed over each other ; yet the 

 principle is the same. 



RULES FOR MANAGEMENT IN SUBTENDED HIVES. 



The rules for managementan the foregoing hives, as 

 I have it from those bee-keepers whj have purchased 

 them is, that the bees are hived in the lower box, and 

 when this is filled, add a second, and if that be also 

 filled, then add a third box. If all be filled with 

 combs and honey, then at the proper season, the two 

 upper boxes may be removed, and the bees expelled 

 therefrom to return to the lower ' one, where the whole 

 family should pass the winter. This is all very well in 

 theory, and even in practice, the first and second years ; 



