HIVE OF VICAT. 



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with the same letters, a a b b, as in the foregoing figures, 



and the feet // are nailed in the notches on each side of 



Fig. 6. 



the groove g, made to receive the drawer represented in 

 fig5. 



a b, fig. 7 is the cover with 

 its moveable circle in which 

 the part e is pierced with 

 holes ; /is quite open ; g g ggg 

 are five little arched openings 

 for the passage of the bees ; 

 and d is the close part to shut 

 entirely the openings g, when 

 the weather is too cold for 

 the bees. The screw rods 

 should not be made to project on each side of the hive 

 so much as they do in fig. 1 ; but they should be represented 

 as in fig 6, where they are fastened behind by means of 

 an iron rod. 



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