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HIVES. 
put off till quite sure it would do no longer, and some- 
times a few days after that, when you will very often 
find your bees past remedy. 
SEE BEES OFTEN. 
“ See your bees often," is a choice recipe, — it is worth 
five hundred dollars at interest, even when you have 
but few stocks. How necessary then that we have 
every facility for a close and minute inspection. How 
much easier to turn up a hive that simply rests on a 
stand. Sometimes it is necessary to turn the hive, 
even bottom up, and let the rays of the sun directly 
among the combs, to see all the particulars. By this 
close inspection, I have often ascertained the cause of 
some difficulty, and provided a remedy, thus saving a 
good many that in a short time would have been lost ; 
yet, with a little help, were as valuable as any by 
another year. 
hall’s patent. 
Mr. Hall has added a lower section to his hive, 
about four inches deep, with two boards inside, like 
the roof of a house, to discharge the worms, &c. ; but 
as these boards would interfere with close inspection, 
they are objectionable. Several other variations of 
inclined bottom-boards and suspended hives have 
been contrived, to obtain a patent, but the objections 
offered will apply to most of them. I shall not weary 
the reader by noticing in detail every hive that has 
been patented ; I think if I notice the principles of each 
/<~>W it •"dll test his patience sufficiently. 
