MANAGEMENT OK BEES. 
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This keeps the robbers out, and your own bees in, 
while you are catching the robbers. The front side of 
this tube should be 1-2 inch shorter than the back side, 
to give the robbers free access to the box. The hole 
at the lower eud of this tube should be as large as 
possible, and taper to a half inch hole at the upper end. 
The robbers can then readily pass up this tube into the 
box, but not one in a hundred will ever return by the 
same way. In this way you can effectually prevent the 
depredations of robbers. 
The two inner hives, to contain the bees and their 
winter stock, in the lower part of the casement, should 
be made of half inch boards, well seasoned. 16 inches 
high, 151-4 inches wide from front to rear, and 7 5-8 
inches thick. There should be several holes through 
the inner side of each inner hive, meeting each other, 
so that the Bees can freely pass from one to the other ; 
and also four holes through the top of each inner hive, 
corresponding with holes through the chamber floor, 
and honey boxes in the chamber, to give the bees an 
entrance into the honey boxes. 
Make a hole 1 1-4 inches iu diameter through the 
front side of each inner hive, to correspond with the 
ventilator in front of the casement, and cover them 
with coarse wire gauze, or perforated tin, to prevent 
the bees from passing between the inner hives and the 
sasemeut. 
If hives are made according to the rules here given, 
a space will be left all around the inner hives. This 
will prevent the comb from being melted by the hot 
weather, which is very important. 
Make the Honey drawers so that two of them will 
just fill the chamber of the casement ; and see that the 
apertures in the bottom of each drawer correspond 
with those in the chamber floor, and in the upper sides 
of the inner hives. 
But a glass in the back side of each inner hive, and 
each drawer, as you see iu the engraving giving a back 
view of the Hive. By using glass in the hives and 
dawers, you will be enabled to see the skill and work- 
manship of your bees, and also to ascertain when your 
