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KIDDER’S PATENT BEE-HIVES AND FIXTURES, 
EXPLAINED AND DESCRIBED, 
In all their principal points, which I trust will, as they ever 
have, win the confidence and esteem of all Bee- 
keepers. The first Patent bearing date 
of 1858, the second 1860, and 
the third in 1863. 
All of which are combined in the Compound and Glass 
Hives, and for only one fee — making them the most 
desirable Hives that have ever been invented. 
1st. Tnra Compound Hive is so constructed that it can 
be used in double form, giving a dead air-space around the 
entire colony ; or in other words, it is a hive within a hive. 
AVhen the hive is used in double form, as it always should 
be, (only in case of emergency, as described hereafter,) 
an even temperature can be constantly kept up, the same 
as in our own houses. It has been allowed by all scientific 
bee-keepers who have used this hive, that it excels all others 
in protecting the bees against the extremes of heat and 
Cold. Bees in this hive will never cluster upon the out- 
side, unless there is a mismanagement about it. 
(See annexed cut, Fig. 4.) < 
