. A London encyclopaedia, or universal dictionary of science, art, literature and practical mechanics : comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge : illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams . e season, lose a proportional number of dayslabor. Hives should stand at some distancefrom walls and hedges. These are often muchinfested with snails in summer, and mice inwinter. Huish recommends placing every hiveupon a single pedestal, and at two or three feetdistance from each other. By this means whenany thing happens to one hive, the others arele
. A London encyclopaedia, or universal dictionary of science, art, literature and practical mechanics : comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge : illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams . e season, lose a proportional number of dayslabor. Hives should stand at some distancefrom walls and hedges. These are often muchinfested with snails in summer, and mice inwinter. Huish recommends placing every hiveupon a single pedestal, and at two or three feetdistance from each other. By this means whenany thing happens to one hive, the others areless likely to be disturbed than when placed ona shelf in a bee-house; and the hive may bechained down and locked. It is usual to havethree or four legs or supports to the bee boards,but those who have tried one will never resortto more, as one is a much better protection fromvermin and insects. The annexed diagram repre-sents the figure of this gentle-mans hive, which is thus des-cribed : It is so constructedinteriorly that each comb maybe extracted by itself withoutderanging the rest; the combsbeing attached to slips of boardplaced across the mouth ortop of the hive, any one ofthem may be lifted up, and toeffect this operation the taper-. ing construction of the interior is favorable. Toprevent the bees from working between the slips,air is admitted by means of pierced plates oftinned iron; and to prevent human thieves fromcarrying off the whole hive, it is chained andpadlocked to a strong post, which serves also asa fulcrum. The inventor of this hive has triedit, he says, for nearly twenty years. At anytime and season when I require some honey-comb, or at the end of the season when I deprivemy bees of their superfluous store, I open thetop, and take the side-boards out, from whichhaving cut the honeycomb, I replace them inthe hive, and the operation is facilitated by hav-ing some vacant boards ready to supply theplace of the full ones. This operation is very easilyand speedily
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