Archive image from page 307 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( 282 HIVE OF THORLEY. The slide or valve made in the upper part of the straw hive is made of either brass or tin, and is about elev
Archive image from page 307 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( 282 HIVE OF THORLEY. The slide or valve made in the upper part of the straw hive is made of either brass or tin, and is about eleven inches long, and four broad. The wooden slide, which closes the hexagonal hive, is ten inches long, four inches broad, and nine thick. When the hive is on the point of swarming, one of these slides is withdrawn to give a passage to the new swarm into the upper hive, an advantage which the bees seize upon im- mediately, instead of leaving the parent hive, which is most generally the case. When it is perceived that the old bees and the new swarm are tranquil in their hive, the communi- cation is closed, by pushing forward the slider. At the bottom of every hive, a small opening must be made of three inches long, and three lines broad, by which the bees may enter their respective dwellings. This hive in all its properties and construction is nothing more than the hive of Thorley, and therefore little or no credit is due to Sir Charles Whitworth for his alleged inven- tion. The annexed draw- ing is an exact representa- tion of the hive of Thor- ley, which corresponds in every particular with the description which we have given of Sir Charles' hive. In regard to the hives of Saul, Nutt, an d Bagster, they are only to be regard- ed in the light of toys, and the making of which is attended with so much expense, as to render them the mere objects of amuse- ment to the affluent apia- rian. The hive of Nutt with its thermometer may amuse for
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