Of Bees. 
labour lefs, fo you may leflen their paflages 
by fmall Wedges, made flat and fit for that 
purpofe 5 fo you may keep their Glals {hut 
as you thinkgood. You may if you pleafe 
let your uppermoft be a fmall Straw-hive, 
which is as good, though not fo comely 
or fuitable, as that of Joyner’s Work. 
You may make a Frame of Wood on 
four Leggs, covered with Board or Lead, 
or what you pleafe to place thefe Boxes in 
to preferve them from the Wet, much 
whereof they will not endure. Let the 
drip be carried off from the two foremoft 
fides, leaft it drive too much on the Hives 
or Bees. This Cafe or Bee-houfe muft ftand 
Arras -wife with one Corner towards the 
South, that the Boxes alfo may the better 
ftand that way. It muft have doors on eve* 
ry fide: the two back-doors maybe whole, 
and made to open only when you have oo 
cafion to move, order or view your Bees. 
The two fore- doors may be made in feve* 
ral parts, the upper third part to open up* 
wards, fupported, dripping forwards, by 
(lender Iron-hooks, that the wind ftir them 
not j thefe ferve to keep the Bees and Box¬ 
es from Rain and Sun, The Under-doors 
may be made in halves, the one to hang 
on the Eaft and Weft-pofts, and the other 
