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APPENDIX. 
The Hiver is made of three rough boards, 
half inch thick, seven inches wide, eighteen 
inches long, nailed together like a common 
trough, open at both ends — a strap of iron 
riveted on its outside; across the centre of 
each board, with a shank or socket to insert 
a rod to handle it with, so that when inverted 
by means of the rod, and placed over the bees 
when alighting, forms a kind of half-hive, 
which they readily enter. There should be 
from a dozen to twenty half-inch holes bored 
through the top board, so as to let the alight- 
ing bees enter through the holes. When a 
small proportion of the bees arc found in the • 
hiver, it may be moved a lew feet from the 
limb, which may be shaken with another rod 
with a hook on its end, which disengages the 
bees, and in a few moments the whole swarm 
will be found in the hiver. By the addition 
of ferules and joints, the hiver may be raised 
to any reasonable height. Thus the labor of 
