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pollen by taking combs from those hives that have 

 more than is actually necessary for their support, 

 and exchanging with those that lack, enabling all to 

 live and prosper* 



A feature peculiar to this hive is the honey-hoard, 

 or hoard which divides the main breeding depart- 

 ment from the hone} 7 boxes. It is so arranged as to 

 prevent the queen ascending to the honey boxes, 

 which she frequently does, depositing eggs in combs 

 intended only for a pure article of honey for market. 

 This is more apt to occur in hives that have but a 

 small amount of drone-combs below ; that being the 

 kind of comb very commonly built in the boxes, 

 seems to be an inducement for them to go up and 

 deposit eggs, where openings are left immediately 

 over the central part of the hive. Instead of getting 

 boxes of delicious honey, there will occasionally be 

 a box of nice young drone brood. A queen is fre- 

 quently lost by being taken off when these boxes 

 are removed, she being unable or unwilling to return 

 to the hive from whence she was removed; if late 

 in the season, the stock will most likely be lost in 

 consequence. This difficulty is entirely overcome 

 in. the construction of this hive, the openings being 

 at the sides and near the front, consequently out of 

 the range of her majesty. I have never known a 

 single instance of the queen going into the honey 

 boxes when thus arranged. 



This hive affords ample facilities to assist the bees 

 in eradicating the moth and worms. I have no faith 

 in moth-proof hives ; if there are any such, I have 

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