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fulcrum or centre, and the bars are able to sustain a 

 very great weight. 



The remarks relative to posts, the hanging of the bot- 

 tom-boards on an incHned plane, the construction of a 

 roof, &c., are all applicable to these hives, as well as those 

 hung on the first-mentioned plan. 



^ The door to the chamber, and the glass window in 

 the lower section of the hive, here appear in front. 

 They can, as I before observed, be on either side ; yet 

 I think hives have a better appearance to have them in 

 front. 



It is desirable in erecting a bee-stand, to have as little 

 shelter for insects as possible, and here lies the advan- 

 tage of this stand, to some \iU\e extent, over the one first 

 named. Everything fits very closely in the above 

 method, affording less crevices for moth-millers, spiders, 

 &c., than the other mode. The difficulty in the first 

 case, merely lies in the necessity of the cross-bars being 

 much wider than those of the second case ; and as the 

 posts will gradually work out of position, in a small de- 

 gree, openings between the said bars and the hives will 

 appear ; and unless the apiarian uses a brush to clean 

 out these crevices quite often, they become filled with 

 spiders' webs, and various insects that do no good to 

 the apiary ; yet with care on the part of the attentive 

 bee-keeper, there is nothing to fear. If a channel ap- 

 pears between the bars and the hives on the above plan 

 a brush-broom will clear out any insects that may get a 

 lodgment there very easily ; but in the first case, there 



