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MANUAL OF THE 
This tube should be 6 inches long, on the top, 6 inches 
wide, and 1 1-2 inches thick. The bottom should pro- 
ject 1 1-2 inches beyond the top and sides, to make a 
convenient place for the Bees to alight. The space in 
the tube is 1-2 inch high, and 5 inches wide. The tube 
should pass through the front of the Hive, and 1 inch 
into the bottom plank, to prevent the Bees from enter- 
ing between the casement and the inner Hive. A 
mortice should be made in the top of the tube, half 
way from the front of the Hive to the front of the tube, 
1 inch wide by 5 inches long, to receive the tube of 
the robber Box. 
There is a tongue irt the tube 1-2 inch thick, and 1 
inch wide at the inner end, and comes to an edge at 
the outer end, which must be even with the mortice in 
the top of the tube. This tongue must bo fastened at 
the wide end with n wire or screw, so as to turn it to 
the right or left, as occasion may require. The tongue 
must be in the centre of the tube, there being 2 inches 
space on each side, for the Bees to enter the Hive. I 
then make two grooves in the bottom plank, corres- 
ponding with the entrance ways in the tube. These 
grooves are 2 inches wide and 1 inch deep at the end 
of the tube, running to an edge in the centre of the 
Hive. There is a strip left between the grooves on the 
bottom plank which is not cut out, that the inner edge 
of each inner hive stands on. 
The Robber Box should be made 14 inches high, 10 
inches wide, and 6 thick, with a glass in front 8 inches 
by 10; and a hole in the back side 1 inch in diameter, 
to let the robbers into a box, if occasion should require. 
This hole should be covered by a piece of tin fastened 
at one end by u screw ; so that it can be made tight 
to prevent the robbers escaping, or opened at pleas- 
ure. 
A tube that just fills the mortice in the top of the 
Hive tube, should be fitted into the bottom of the box, 
passing half way through the box, to prevent the rob- 
bers from making their escape, by the same way that 
they entered. The back part of this tube should be 
made long enough to close the entrance to the Hive. — 
