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HIVE OF MADAME VICAT. 



In every portion or fragment of the hive, a kind of flooring 

 of open work is placed, composed of five or six rods at the 

 top of each fragment, and when the different portions are 

 arranged one ahove the other, the open work is placed in an 

 opposite direction, so as to form a certain number of squares. 



In the upper fragment, forming the top or head, is the 

 open work flooring, which facilitates the first operations of 

 the bees ; to it they attach their first works, which are suc- 

 cessively supported by the transverse rods of each fragment 

 forming that kind of open work flooring. It is advisable to 

 place these rods at about six lines from the upper part of 

 each fragment of the hive. 



The collection of honey from these hives is very simple, 

 as by means of a little smoke, the bees can be driven from 

 the upper fragments, in which the best honey is stored, 

 when the whole of the fragment can be taken away, and 

 replaced at pleasure. 



THE HIVE OF MADAME VICAT. 



Madame Vicat, a native of Switzerland, was a strenuous 

 advocate for the storifying system ; but she entertained con- 

 siderable objections to the perpendicular method, and there- 

 fore invented a hive formed of collateral boxes, which certainly 

 possesses many advantages in which the perpendicular system 

 is wholly deficient. At the same time, we cannot award to 

 Madame Vicat the meed of entire originality, as her hive is 

 but a modification of that of the Abbe della Rocca. 

 Fig. 1. 

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