. An encyclopædia of gardening; . interiorly thateach comb (c) may be extracted by itself without deranging the rest; the combs being attached toslips of board {b) placed across the mouth or top of the hive. Any one of them may be lifted up,and to this the tapering construction of the interior is favorable. To prevent the bees from workingbetween the sUps, air is admitted by means of pierced plates of tinned iron {fig. 296. «1, and toprevent human thieves from carrying off the whole hive, it is chained and padlocked {fig. 296. b)to a strong post, which serves also as a fulcrum. The inventor of
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . interiorly thateach comb (c) may be extracted by itself without deranging the rest; the combs being attached toslips of board {b) placed across the mouth or top of the hive. Any one of them may be lifted up,and to this the tapering construction of the interior is favorable. To prevent the bees from workingbetween the sUps, air is admitted by means of pierced plates of tinned iron {fig. 296. «1, and toprevent human thieves from carrying off the whole hive, it is chained and padlocked {fig. 296. b)to a strong post, which serves also as a fulcrum. The inventor of this hive has tried it, hesays, for nearly twenty years, and the following he states as the mode of using it, and the ad-vantages attending its construction. At any time and season when I require some honeycomb, or atthe end of the season, when I deprive my bees of their superfluous store, I open the top, and take the side-boards out, from which having cut the honeycomb, I replace them in the hive, and the operation i# Z 4 294. 344 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II.
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