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The Defcripion of the 

 Boxes or Hives. 



TH E Boxes may be made 

 of Wainfcot or Fir Deals, 

 or of the fame materials, which 

 Pails for carrying water are 

 made of, or as your Buftiel or 

 Peck meafure. 



For their difflenfion, it h 

 convenient, that each Box be of 

 that Iargenefs a that it may con- 

 tain a Bufhel, the height not 

 exceeding ten inches 5 and its 

 breadth eighteen inches, that 

 they may more conveniently 

 ftand upon one another, and 

 that when the Bees come in 

 loaden, they may not have a 

 great height to go up. 



The Box is in figure an OBa- 



gon or eight fquare, each fquare 



Bit nine 



