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suaded that there is any better way of obtaining honey a 
wax, than by suffocating, castrating, or driving the b 
‘To avoid these losses, it is only necessary, as © 
opens, to put an empty box or pannier under the : 
hive. When. the bees have filled the upper box 
combs, and the cells with honey, they abandon it, and ¢ 
scend into the empty box below, to confinue their labou 
This is what I call the two-storied hiveof M. De la B 
donnaye. If, at the opening of the second spring, ano 
box be put under this hive of two stories, they will 
what I call the pyramidal hive, the upper box of w 
may be taken off and emptied every autumn. Thi 
thod obviates all the inconveniences of suffocation, 
tion, or driving, heretofore in use; inasmuch as the 
colony is preserved, and the queen, the neuters, | 
worms, and eggs, remain sound and untouched, 
lower boxes. ; 
The panniers. for the simple hive, should be mz 
-osiers, broom, or straw. ‘They are light, and the 
suited to receive swarms which have settied on trees, 
off the ground. ‘They should be made of different dime 
sions, proportioned to the volume of the swarm which th 
are to contain. ‘The multiplication of colonies depe 
much on the panniers in which the swarms are put. 
milies of bees in a confined situation, in a simple 
will produce swarms sooner, than those in boxes whic 
too large. 3 Re . 
Success is more certain, by beginning with small boxe 
In these the heat is more concentrated; and heat ne 
fails to provoke emigration, in good weather. This 
servation ought to be remembered by those who wish to 
crease their colonies in the shortest time. : 
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CHAPTER VI. 
OF THE TWO-STORIED HIVE. : 
_ _ The two-storied hive is the invention of M. De la Bo 
donnaye, late Proctor-general Syndic of the affairs of B 
tagne. ‘This illustrious agriculturist attended to ev 
branch of rural economy. He was one of the princip 
founders of the Royal Society of Agriculture, in Bretagni 
