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THE HIVE OF HUBER MODIFIED BY MR. FEBURIER. 



" For the construction of this hive," says Mr. Feburier, 

 in his excellent Traite sur les Abeilles, " I took some pieces 

 of deal about an inch broad, and fifteen lines thick through- 

 out the whole length of the outward surface. I made a 

 groove six lines in breadth to nine in depth. I then ad- 

 justed some other pieces of wood of six lines broad and nine 

 thick in such a manner, that one of those pieces fitted 

 in exactly into the groove. I then joined an upright of 

 fifteen lines in thickness with one of nine, by means of two 

 cross pieces, one in the top and the other in the bottom, 

 leaving four lines' distance between them, and of them I 

 made a sash or window frame of twenty-two lines broad, to 

 a height determined according to the proportions of the 

 hive. This sash, when set up, presents in the front to the 

 left the groove of six lines broad to nine deep, and behind 

 to the right, a space of six lines to nine in thickness. In 

 the midst there is an opening of four lines broad from one 

 cross bar to the other, with a small groove in which to re- 

 ceive the pane of glass. 



" After having made sixteen small frames, eight of which 

 were two inches longer on account of the slope of the lid, 

 I joined them two by two together by means of some pieces 

 of wood of six inches long, arranged like the first, taking 

 care to nail together the uprights and the cross bars of the 

 same dimensions. These cross bars being firmly nailed, 

 and forming within a space of six inches, I preserved the 

 space at the bottom by means of some round pegs, placed at 

 a third of the height, and crossing the thickness of the 

 uprights, and supported by a small wooden wedge. 



" This operation being finished, I had eight frames with- 

 out bottoms, having one side to project to fill up the space 

 of the groove formed by the opposite side. On joining all 

 these frames together, I fastened them one to another, and 



