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timation of all such as are acquainted with the value 
and economy of Bees. 
An advocate of the storying system says, “ No 
cause exists why a certain number of stories should 
not be placed, for several months, and even for a 
year; that much is gained by it, provided, for this 
period of time, the boxes are made of a convenient 
and proper size,” &c. To this system, Mr. Huish 
is lengthy and particular in his objections ; the amount 
of which is, that the flat hives used in this process, 
are injurious to the health, and even life of the Bees, 
and principally on account of the moisture which the 
swarm emits by perspiration, being collected upon 
the tops of fhe hives, and there being condensed by 
the influence of the cold air, falls again upon the 
Bees, and occasions their worst malady, the dysentery. 
These vapours, Mr. Huish found actually frozen to a 
sheet of ice in the top of one of his glass hives, in 
the hard winter of 1014, and at once concludes this 
vapour to fee both noxious and destructive to the 
swarm. He then proceeds, “ Hives with convex tops 
conduct this condensed vapour down the sides of the 
hives, and thus screen the swarm from the falling 
drops, and preserve them dry.” The writer con- 
cludes this chapter with the following description 
of a hive of his own invention, for his own particu- 
lar use. which pleased him, and has the strength ot 
his recommendation added to its value. 
“ Having now examined the different hives which 
are now in use in this country, (England,) and upon 
the continent, it barely remains for me to describe the 
hive,' which, although its general principles are of an 
early date, yet its improvements have been entirely 
suggested by myself. As it has always been my 
invariable study to preserve the lives of these valua- 
ble insects, and, at the same time, to reap the great- 
est possible advantage from their labours, the se- 
lection of a proper abode for them, was a matter of 
no secondary consideration ; for on this must depend 
