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the under Door to fold in two, one half to hang on 
the Eaft and Weft Pofts, and the other on the South 
Ports, thofe on the South ones to be taken off all the 
Summer, and in the Winter likewife, except whetl 
you intend to confine the Bees wholly. The oppofite 
Cut (hews you the Form of the whole Box and Bee- 
houfe. 
From this Model of keeping Bees thefe Advantages 
will accrue, vi\. 
1. Your Bees will not be hinder’d amending, ths 
Houfe being low. 
2. They will not want Room nor Entrance, for 
the Doors ase wide, and on feveral Tides of the Boxes 
or Hives, that their pafiage is free in the moft bufie 
time of their Honey-gathering. 
3. By thus placing the Hives, they have the Sun 
all the Day : In hot anti dry weather the Morning 
Sun is beft to invite them abroad, before the Dews 
are off the Flowers and Trees; and the Evening 
Sun is alfo neceffary at all times. 
4. Their Entrance or Doors may be ftraitned eafi- 
ly, as' the Seafon of the Year requires it. 
The Boxes may be fecur’d in Winter from cold 
Winds and Rains, and the warm Sun (hut out during 
the Winter Months, which fhining on ’«m, caufes ’em 
to come out to their ruine, and ufual'ly awakens ’em 
out of their Winter Sleep, ftirring them up to fpend 
their Provifion, which in Spring time they may want, 
especially if the weather prove unfeafonable. 
5 . You may at any time ufe your Glafs Windows, 
to view the numerous company of thefe laborious In- 
fers. 
7. Thefe flat and broad Boxes will entertain with 
advantage as many of thefe Creatures as poffibly can 
live together in one Hive, with all imaginable con- 
venience ; and as they encreafe in number, fo may 
you encreafe the Boxes, till you find ’em at a ftand, 
and then »tis beft to take ’em by fmothering, provi- 
ded a hole be left at the bottom of the Beehoufe, 
