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asa’ proper lighting Place for the Bees, 
which plane down, that the Wet may fall 
off. “When this Floor toa fingle Colony 
wants ‘to be repaired, it may with Eafe be 
removed, and another placed in it’s room, 
without ‘difturbing the other Colonies, 
touching any other Part of the Floor. 
The Interfpaces may be filled with other 
Pieces of Boards, or Planks of an equal 
Thicknefs, Shick will laft for many Years. 
T only propofe this, leaving the Reader to 
his Choice. 
Upon this Floor, “at éqaal Diftances, all 
your ‘Colonies mutt be placed, againft a Door 
or Paffage cut in the Front of the Houfe, 
Only obferve further, to prevent any falfe - 
Step, that as the Top-Board of the Box (be- 
ing a full Inch broader than the other Part) 
will not permit the two Mouths to come 
clofe together, you muft cut a Third in a 
Piece of Deal of a fufficient Breadth, and 
place it between the other two, fo clofe, that 
not a Bee may get that Way into the Houfe. 
And fixing the faid Piece of Deal down to 
the Floor with two Lath Nails, you will 
find afterwards to be of Service,’ when you 
have Occafion either to raife a Colony, or 
take a Box of Honey, and may prove a 
means of preventing a great ‘deal of Trou-. 
ble and Mifchief. 
The Houfe in this Forwardnefs, you 
may cover it to your own Mind, with 
Boards, 
a 
