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clear ; the same size as the preceding box-hive. The 

 chamber is eight inches deep, with a door hung on butts, 

 and shutting with a small hook and staple. A glass 

 window is shown in front, which may be omitted, if you 

 please, as before stated. Two boxes are made of very 

 thin boards, each with a pane of glass covering the 

 whole front, and let into a groove in the sides cut for 

 that purpose. There should be no bottoms to these 

 boxes, but they should rest on the floor of the chamber, 

 through which three inch and a quarter holes should be 

 made under each box. When filled with honey, a long 

 slender knife run under them, will easily detach such 

 portions of the combs, as may be built down in close 

 contact with the chamber floor or division board ; and 

 when the boxes are taken out, the bees are much easier 

 driven out of them, than they could be, if they were 

 enclosed on every side. If the apiarian does not sell 

 any of his honey, it is preferable to have but one box to 

 fill the whole space, because bees will work better in a 

 single box, and lay up more honey, as a general rule, 

 than in two small ones. 



The door to the chamber, and the glass window ap- 

 pear in this cut to be in front, yet you can have either 

 side to be the front, that you please. Both sides are 

 adapted to be the front, or the back of the hive. 



This hive is made twenty-two inches high, and four- 

 teen inches broad. These dimensions allow one inch 

 for the top, one inch for the division-board or chamber- 

 floor, and two inches for the thickness of two sides 



that is, one inch for each. The two sides of full length 



