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MANAGING BEES. 
RULE I. 
OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BEE-HIVE. 
A Bee-Hive should be made of sound 
boards, free bom shakes and cracks : it should 
also be planed smooth, inside and out, made 
in a workmanlike manner, and painted white 
on its outside. . 
REMARKS. 
That a. Bee-Hive should be made perfect, 
so as to exclude light and air, is obvious from 
the fact, that the bees will finish what the 
workman has neglected, by plastering up all 
such cracks and crevices, or bad joints, as are 
left open by the joiner. The substance they 
use for this purpose is neither honey nor wax, 
but a kind of glue, or cement of their own 
manufacturing, and is used by the bees, to fill 
