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In My Hives. — Tiie same conditions' are necessary to 
Insure a good swarm. The examination can be more 
satisfactory than in the former cases; — the frames can 
be taken out separately and examined. The presence of 
Queen, brood, workers, or drones, the amount of honey, 
bee biead, and general condition of the hive can be 
known at all times; and by following the foregoing di- 
rections, it will be an easy matter to determine their 
value. The presence of bee bread cannot be detected in 
old combs without cutting into them, as the bees fill the 
eel Is nearly full of bread and the balance in honey and 
then seal it over so it will keep moist for future use. To 
all appearances it looks like honey. Here is another ad- 
vantage of the movable comb hive over all others, as ev- 
ery eontb can be examined, which is not the case with 
any other hive. * 
WHAT A BEE HIVE SHOCU) BE. 
In recommending a movable comb hive, I want it un- 
derstood that there is a great difference between these 
hives. A hive may be too large or too small, too high 
or too low, too cold for winter or too warm for summer, 
convenient or inconvenieut, for the bees or their master. 
The hive may contain movable frames, but of such con- 
struction that they bceome immovable when filled with 
combs and honey. 'Here is no doubt but a movable 
comb hive is indispensable to the successful management 
of the bee, but it must be of that form that combines 
utile dulei, or yod have made a poor beginning. Every 
point that lends to facilitate the labors of the bee, and 
at the same time give the bee master perfect control 
over his hives, is also desirable. To combine all these 
qualities in a complete hive, and at the same time, r 
duce to practice a general system af management for lh« 
