BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
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confined, and to some extent protected, by double 
glass. If the hive be placed in a room (its most suitable 
position), a long tunnel must be necessarily traversed 
by the bees in leaving and returning. This may be 
very much extended, and yet, in a few days, will 
present no impediment to the labourers. Our con- 
ventional hive entrance may be widely departed from 
without bad effect. I have seen, e.g., in Mr. Simmins’s 
apiary, bees travelling up and down a long, perpen- 
dicular shaft, which left their hive at one of the top 
corners, and then turned abruptly at a right angle 
to conduct them through a thin wall into the open. 
Not only did the workers know their way about, but 
the queens flew from this and similarly situated stocks, 
mated, and returned in the most orderly manner. It 
is usual to people unicomb hives by transferring combs 
and adherent bees from an established stock, giving no 
more brood than can be cared for under the new and 
e 
Fig, 39.— Neighbour’s Observatory Hive (Scale, 
/A, Feedhole ; e, Entrance ; a. Axis of Rotation. 
