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SUSPENDED CHAMBER HIVES. 



The above engraving represents a couple of chamber- 

 hives, suspended on arms nailed across joists, (timber, 3 

 by 4 in.) This mode of suspending hives is original ; 

 no one but myself ever adopting it, that I know of. I 

 have also shown in the next engraving, another mode of 

 suspending hives, of my own invention ; that, for some 

 reasons, is superior to this method. 



The manner of suspending, on the above plan, is as 



