The Form of the Bowes, &e. 143. 
plates of iron, near three inches long, to turn up and 
down within the box, and put in three inches beneath 
the top-board, which is nailed clofe down with fprigs to 
the other parts of the box. 
_ Thofe who chufe a frame within, to which the Bees 
may faften their combs, need only ufe a couple of deal 
{ticks of an inch fquare, placed acrofs in the box, and 
fupported by two pins of brafs, one an inch and half bee. 
low the top, the other two inches below it, by which 
means the combs will quickly find a reft. But if at the © 
firft plantation an hive is-put into the houfe, together 
with a box, there will be no occafion for fuch fupports. 
One thing yet is wanting to perfect the work, viz. a 
paflage for the Bees to go in and out four or five inches 
in length, but in depth lefs than-half an inch. Now-we 
are in readinefs for an houfe. 
A Defiription of the Bee-Houfe, for fix Colonies, 
IN keeping Bees in colonies, an houfe is neceflary, 
or at leaft a fhed ; without which the weather, efpeci- 
ally. the heat of the fun, would foon rend the boxes to 
pieces. | 
Your houfe may be made of any boards you pleafe, 
but deal is the beft; let the materials be of what fort 
_ you pleafe, the houfe muft be painted, to fecure it from 
the weather. 
The form and dimenfions of the houfe are thefe ; the 
length thereof full twelve feet and an half. Each co- 
Jony fhould ftand a foot diftant from the other. 
The 
