44 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
The height three feet and an half, to admit four box . 
es together. If only three boxes be employed, two feet 
eight inches. 
The breadth two feet on the infide. The four cor- 
ner pofts to be made of oak, ard well fixed in the ground, 
that no ftormy winds may overturn it, and all the rails 
of oak, fupported by feveral uprights of the fame, before 
and behind, that they may not yield or fink under 6, 7, 
or 800 weight or upwards. ‘The floor of the houfe (a~ 
bout two feet from the ground) fhould be ftrong and 
fmooth, that the loweft box, may ftand clofe to it.” 
_ This floor may be made with boards or planks of deal 
the full length of the Bee-houfe; or, which I prefer, with 
a board or plank to each colony, of two feet four inches 
long, and fixed down to the rails; and that part which 
appears at the front of the houfe may be cut into.a fe- 
micircle as a proper lighting place for the Bees, which 
plane down, that the wet may fall off. When this floor 
to a fingle colony wants to be repaired, it may with eafe 
be removed, and another placed in it’s room, without 
difturbing the other colonies, or touching me other 
part of the floor. vt 
The interfpaces may be filled with other pieces of 
boards, or planks of an equal thicknefs, which will Jaft 
for many years. I only propofe this, leaving the reader 
to his choice. 
Upon this floor, at equal diftances, all your colonies 
muft be placed, againft a door or paflage cut in the front 
of the houfe. 
Only 
