. 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. Bees. HIVE OP HUISH. 283 a moment the loungers in the National GaDery of Science, but its general introduction is wholly out of the question. With the knowledge of the many defects and disadvan- tages exhibited by the vari
. 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. Bees. HIVE OP HUISH. 283 a moment the loungers in the National GaDery of Science, but its general introduction is wholly out of the question. With the knowledge of the many defects and disadvan- tages exhibited by the various hives now in use, we considered it possible to construct one on those principles, which, would obviate those disadvantages, and at the same time combine beauty with utility. Of all the materials which have been used for the making of hives, the conviction is strongly impressed upon us, that straw is by far the best. It is clean, wholesome, dry, impervious to the effects of the weather; which are advantages not to be gained by wood or any other material. Being a warm advocate for the deprivation of a hive, in preference to the massacre of the bees, the parti- cular shape of the hive became a matter of the first consi- deration, and secondly, so to construct it that the use of the sticks could be entirely abolished. In some parts of Greece, the hives resemble exactly a large flower pot; and we con- sidered that the shape offered to us every advantage which we were desirous of obtaining. The combs being begun at the top would necessarily be larger than at the bottom, and thus, acting upon the principles of the wedge, they would be prevented from falling down, and the extraction of them from the top would, in comparison from the bottom, be a matter of great facility. In order, however, to effect the ex- traction of the combs from the top, it was evident that that advantage could not be gained, were the top of the hive to be of one piece, for as such it could not be lifted, with
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