CHAPTER II. 
HIVES FOB BEES. 
Bees the Friend of Man — Man the Friend of Bees 
— The First Essential of a True Hive — -Bees 
Building in Bush — Strange Swarming Places — • 
Use of Protecting Cover — The Arrangement of 
the Swarm — Theoretically Globular — Disposition 
of Combs — Heat-giving Layer — Bees First Hive- 
makers — Apis Dorsata- — -Hive Elasticity — Small 
Swarms Choose Side of Hive — Hive Shape — 
Movable Side — Simple and Complex Hives. 
We closed our last volume by endeavouring to sum 
up the value of the bee to the human race, her 
honey, although toothsome, yet forming but a minor 
fraction in the total of her benefits, for “ seeds, 
flowers, and fruits, follow in her train. ’’ Truly, then, 
notwithstanding an occasional exhibition of naughty 
little ways, as we think them, she is the friend of 
man ; and man himself, although sometimes, in ignor- 
ance of his own interest, cruel to the little creature 
to which he owes so much, is, after all, a friend to 
the bee in providing a dwelling, which wondrously 
increases her prosperity, as, indeed, it should, since 
the interests of both are bound up together. The 
