THE CULTIVATOR. 
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BEE HI YE.—(Fig. 20.) 
Messrs. Gaylord & Tucker— I send you a plan and 
description of a bee hive which I have constructed du¬ 
ring the past season, and which I conceive possesses 
some advantages over any I have seen. If any others 
are of like opinion, they are at liberty to use it. It may 
be used as a chamber hive, or on the subtended plan, at 
the pleasure of the apiarian. 
A. A.—Body of the hive 16 inches square on the out 
side, and 12 inches high, made of inch boards. 
B. B.-—Upper apartment, 8 inches high. This may 
be made separate from the lower part, as in the figure, 
or both posts may be made together, as in the Vermont 
and other chambered hives. 
C. C.—Base or protector, 6 inches high, and 17^ inch 
es square; the part projecting beyond the hive, being 
sloped off to prevent water from running under the hive 
made of 1| inch boards. 
D. —Lighting stool for the bees. 
E. E.—Entrances for the bees, 2 inches wide and one 
quarter of an inch high. 
F. —Ventilator immediately under the chamber floor, 
to permit the escape of impure air, and cause a slight 
but regular current of air through the hive. This hole 
must be covered with a wire screen. 
G. —Holes to correspond with holes in the feeding 
box, which may be hung on the front of the hive when 
it is necessary to feed the swarm. These must be kept 
closed at all other times. 
base, should be dovetailed together, and nailed each way, 
and the lower edge of the hive should be chamfered off 
on the inside to half an inch thick. 
Boxes of any shape or size may be put in the cham¬ 
ber, having apertures to correspond with those in the 
chamber floor; or when the hive is filled it may be rais¬ 
ed and another set under it, as in the common subtended 
hive. As the bees enter about 1^ inch below the body 
of the hive, they pass through a canal 3 or 4 inches long, 
before they are fairly within the hive. This gives them 
complete power to defend themselves against robbers, as 
well as the moth. Ants may be kept from the hive by 
strewing a little pearlash around the fee*, or they may 
stand in shallow vessels containing the pearlash. 
The above plan furnishes as complete protection to 
the bees against all their enemies as could be desired, at 
the same time it furnishes as complete facilities for re¬ 
moving honey, &c. as any other hive. Objection will 
probably be made that it is too expensive. It is true, 
that a good hive cannot be made for much less than $2; 
but as it will last an age, and as a good swarm in a sin¬ 
gle year will commonly make surplus honey to pay for 
the hive, it will be cheap in the end. P. 
Bowling Green, Wood co ., 0., 1843. 
N. B. In my drawing I have set the feet on the front 
and rear of the base; they should be on the ends, so as 
not to interfere with the screen, which should slide in 
from the backside. 
H 
Messrs. Gaylord & Tucker— Having noticed in the 
Cultivator several models for gates, it occured to me 
whether the gate I have just finished at the entrance of 
my grounds near my house, might not furnish some new 
hints for you. I have given a very awkward sketch of 
it below, from wbich perhaps you may understand that 
the large gate, when shut, so rests upon the posts at each 
end, as to render it impossible for it ever to sag. So 
when open, it rests upon a short post in the ground. 
The small gate, you perceive, hangs upon the high 
post, and shuts against the upright edge of the large gate, 
and swings in such a manner that the top piece of the 
large gate will swing over it. It will be found that the 
two gates will interfere least with each other, if they 
should be made to swing different ways. The gate 
should be finished whole, and then sawed off; the right 
hand post on one side horizontal half through, and on the 
other side on a slant, so that the gate will easily rise and 
rest on the post, by slightly lifting it as it is shut. 
H.—Screen to slide in a groove under the protector. 
The spaces between the wires one-tenth of an inch. 
In the inside of the protector are two inclined planes 
meeting within 11 inches at the bottom, leaving an open 
space to correspond with the open part of the screen, 
(H.) This position of the inclined planes is represented 
by the dotted lines in the figure. This opening may be 
entirely or partially closed by the screen board, or the 
board may be entirely withdrawn, so that the dead bees, 
&c. may fall out. As soon, however, as the season for 
the moth arrives, and till he disappears in the fall, the 
screen should be used as a barrier to prevent her en¬ 
trance. A strong swarm will keep the entrance in front 
so guarded that the moth will seldom gain admittance 
there, and if she does enter, every part of the hive be¬ 
ing planed smooth, the joints all perfectly closed, and 
the inside of the protector well whitewashed with lime 
and salt, she will find no place to deposit her eggs unless 
there be some exposed comb, which should always be 
guarded against. The body of the hive, chamber and 
Springfield , Mass., 1843. 
J. Willard. 
POUDRETTE. 
The expediency of using any of the compositions 
which are sold for manure, depends on circumstances 
which the farmer should always consider. Mr. Breck, 
of the N. E. Farmer, says he has used within the last two 
years, 75 to 100 barrels of poudrette. He says that where 
good stable dung can be had at three dollars per cord, it 
is no object to buy poudrette at present prices. He does 
not hesitate to say that it is excellent for corn, provided 
about half the usual quantity of green manure is plowed 
in in the spring, and the corn planted on the poudrette. 
The corn takes a vigorous start, and before the virtue of 
the poudrette is exhausted, the decomposition of the 
green manure begins to take place, and affords nourish¬ 
ment for the numerous roots which are greatly multiplied 
by the action of the poudrette. If the ground is no! in 
good heart, Mr. B. says the action of the poudrette alone 
is not sufficient to mature a good crop, although it may 
give a very flattering appearance in the first part of tho 
season. 
