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tions on the tierce of the curate of Tilley, for the inve 
tion of his flat-topped hive, with a hole in it for the 7 
sage of the bees. ' : ; a 
_ This differs from the hive invented before the tim 
M. Bourdonnaye, and also from the improvement mad 
since. It consists merely in putting an empty box unde 
another, which contains a colony of bees of the last or p 
ceding year. eee 
“This second box ought to have its top perfectly smooth 
that the one on the top, containing the bees, may fit close 
On the top of the second box, a little towards the 
part, should be a hole, from fifteen to eighteen lines 
diameter, for a free communication between the stories 
boxes. The upper box should be luted in such a mann 
that there will be no ingress or egress, but through - 
lower box which stands on the bench. aa 
- The boxes should be made from ten to twelve inch 
height, and about the same in diameter. ‘The hive of 
stories would then be from twenty to twenty-four in 
high, and from ten to twelve inches wide. __ 
Warly in spring, this-hive will send forth a swarm mui 
superior to that from the simple hive. And frequently, 
however small the family may be, it will furnish a seco 
swarm in the summer following. We ought not to requ 
more; and even then, there would be danger in removt 
the upper box, as M. Bourdonnaye seemed to hope and 
expect. In fact, the harvest of the two-story hive, is not 
to be expected every year, nor every second year, though 
it may sometimes happen. It is only after the queen has 
laid her eggs in the lower box, and after the eggs in 
upper one are all hatched, the larvee and chrysalids ha 
quit their nymphal robes, and the whole family have ¢ 
scended from the upper to the lower story, that you m 
remove the upper box, full of wax and honey, without b 
larva, or exuvie. 
M. Bourdonnaye thought this the best mode, hitl 
known, of obtaining the products of bees, without destro 
img, smoking, driving, or castrating. But this harves 
not annual and periodical. ‘This was the point to w 
this esteemed cultivator wished to arrives but his Scott 
hive could not attain the end: he approached, without 
gaining it. The troubles of the province on account of 
the expulsion of the Jesuits, the misunderstanding betw 
