itocs Hivai 
weigh (In autumn) 30 lb. ot mote, 
Vide,' looey, bees and altogether. 
A yotmg hive should always be 
preferred to an old one* 
The door o£ a hive, is summer, 
shcoli fee 2 and a half inches wide, 
and half an inch high; or 3 inches 
wide, and three eights of an inch 
high: but if the hive be small it 
should akofce smaller in proportion. 
The floors of hives are best 
made of yellow deal, 1 in. tbic?, 
and exactly plain and level. 
There should ba four sticks pla¬ 
ced across each ether at proper 
distances: [it seems there is i.^ 
