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door’s hive. The easy management, the perfect 
simplicity of its construction, and the happy effects 
produced by the double inclined plane, in dis- 
charging all filth that falls upon it, in ventilating 
the hive, in furnishing an easy and convenient 
place for the bees to alight and enter at the 
leeward of the hive, and also the very convenient 
manner in which the surplus honey may be taken, 
by means of drawers and sliders, without being 
exposed to the danger of a single sting, render it 
highly desirable by every apiarian acquainted 
with it. 
The above hive is made of seasoned inch boards, 
twelve inches and a half square on the outside, 
fourteen inches deep, from the chamber to the pro- 
tector. The chamber is six inches, and the pro- 
tector or base is four inches, making the whole 
height of the hive two feet. . The chamber is 
furnished with two communicating drawers, with 
glass ends in front, designed for taking the surplus 
honey, without destroying a single bee. The 
drawers, when filled, may be carefully taken out 
at the rear of the hive, by opening the door and 
inserting two right angled slides, carefully taking 
one of the sliders out with the drawer, to prevent 
the bees from issuing out of the drawer ; and let- 
ting the other slider remain, to prevent the bees 
from rushing into the chamber, until an empty 
drawer is inserted. Carry the drawer taken out 
into a cellar or some dark place ; then by opening 
a window, and by placing the communication 
aperture toward the light, the bees will soon escape 
and return to the hive, leaving the honey for the 
owner. The body of the hive consists of a per- 
pendicular box of the common form, furnished 
with two cross bars or supporters in the centre ; 
in the chamber floor are two or more apertures, 
