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to new combs, in the manner as shown at page 142, then 

 they will prove a failure, if the most of them have not 

 " blown up" already. 



There is another style of hive in use, to a considera- 

 ble extent, that has no principle that is particularly at 

 variance with my chamber-hive, represented at page 158, 

 except the floor-board has a double inclination. It is 

 done thus : the bottom of the hive is level ; that is, hav- 

 ing no inclination from back to front. 



The bottom-board, or boards, are then placed with an 

 inclination from the centre of the hive, about two or 

 three inches from the bottom, towards each side ; so 

 that when the hive is viewed with the floor-boards in 

 their places, two of them appear; one projecting in 

 front some two inches, and slanting up into the hive to 

 near its centre, from front to rear, and as I before 

 stated, about three inches from the bottom of the hive ; 

 then, another projecting in the rear, or on the back of 

 the hive, having the same inclination upward as the 

 other. This description is given from a hasty exami- 

 nation, and I may possibly not be correct, as regard dis- 

 tances ; but the general features of the alighting-board, 

 I think, are as above represented. This hive is termed 

 a " patent hive," in the section of country where I saw 

 it in use. I infer, that some one, desirous of " raising 

 the wind," by introducing a hive with some new " gim- 

 crack" about it, that would look mysterious and novel, 

 has taken the common chamber-hive, that is public pro- 

 perty, and open for any man's use, and attached this, 



