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The advantages 



that can be claimed for a covered apiaiy are as follows. The bees 

 as well as the master have shade during the heat of the day at the 

 season most attention is required. Shelter is afforded from wind 

 and rain, so that any necessary work is carried on without 

 hindrance ; and lastly the entire arrangement provides for a great 

 saving of time in that all is compactly arranged in the smallest 

 convenient space. 



Provision is made for 150 colonies, and all round the 8-feet 

 wall nuclei can be placed in narrow hives close to the same about 

 4 feet from the groimd, resting on the central rail of the frame- 

 work. 



Bee-houses so-called, 



but being merely cupboards, with two or more rows ot hives, 

 leaving neither room for tiering nor ordinary manipulations, are 

 not worthy a place in the modern apiary ; moreover no arrange- 

 ment in larger houses can be in any sense convenient where an 

 attempt is made to arrange an upper and lower row of standard 

 hives. 



