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AN EASY METHOD OF 
struction by the moth, which is more partic- 
ularly explained in remarks on Rules 2 and 
10 . 
The chamber of the liive* should hold a- 
bout two-thirds as much as the lower apart- 
ment, and be made perfectly tight, so as to 
exclude all light from the windows of the 
drawer, and also to protect them from the 
chilly night-air otherwise, the cold air of 
night so alters the condition of the animal 
heat in the drawer, that the bees arc compel- 
led to lie in idleness until an equilibrium can 
be formgd in the box the following day. Bees 
make comb in the night, and fill up the cells 
with honey in the day-time. Comb is made 
of honey, ruminated in the stomachs of the 
work: ng bees : it exudes from the interior of 
its abdomen, and forms in little flakes betwixt 
its folds, and is taken by the bees in their 
mouth from thence, and welded on to enlarge 
the cells and fill up their tenement with comb. 
Now, as it requires an exact uniformity of heat 
in all cases to make comb and enlarge the 
cells oi a colony, we are able to account for 
the tact that bees will store much more honey 
