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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
be added at the owner’s discretion. The roof (r) is 
covered with zinc, with wood beneath it ; the zinc 
being everywhere free, as seen in Fig. 19, it cannot 
buckle or tear by expansion or contraction ; while the 
whole so shuts as to be absolutely bee-proof, a point 
Avhich should be reached in every well-constructed 
hive. Every facility is afforded for raising a queen in 
a nucleus, besides accommodating the stock, as the 
tight - fitting division-board [d, Fig. 19) completely 
separates the nucleus from the parent colony. Two 
frames would be sufficient for the former. Its entrance 
is placed at the angle np (Fig. 17). The manipulator 
stands behind the hive ; the bees of the main colony 
flying from him as they pass from their entrance, while 
those of the nucleus are saved from troubling by the 
roof-piece, which provides its table room on the right- 
hand side. If feeding be needed, a corner of the thin 
cover is turned back, and a bottle given at the 
opening fo^ the bottom of which is fitted by a pierced 
block, over which Mr. Holland adapts a feeder, illus- 
trated subsequently. Should the food be required by 
the nucleus, the chaff-tray stands as in Fig. 17; if by the 
main colony, the chaff-tray is turned round. Feeding, 
however, would rarely be required during the time the 
nucleus was at work, and so the main colony, if in 
need, .may be generally fed behind the dummy, as 
hereafter described. The comfort of this hive consists 
not a little in its self-contained character; it is the 
same summer and winter, and for wintering qualities 
it is impossible to excel it — without wraps to stow 
away, or carpets to be piled on as winter draws near. 
It is all the year capable of being opened and 
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