Archive image from page 295 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 ( 270 HIVE OF MADAME VICAT. In every portion or fragment of the hive, a kind of flooring of open work is placed, composed of five or
Archive image from page 295 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 ( 270 HIVE OF MADAME VICAT. In every portion or fragment of the hive, a kind of flooring of open work is placed, composed of five or six rods at the top of each fragment, and when the different portions are arranged one ahove the other, the open work is placed in an opposite direction, so as to form a certain number of squares. In the upper fragment, forming the top or head, is the open work flooring, which facilitates the first operations of the bees; to it they attach their first works, which are suc- cessively supported by the transverse rods of each fragment forming that kind of open work flooring. It is advisable to place these rods at about six lines from the upper part of each fragment of the hive. The collection of honey from these hives is very simple, as by means of a little smoke, the bees can be driven from the upper fragments, in which the best honey is stored, when the whole of the fragment can be taken away, and replaced at pleasure. THE HIVE OF MADAME VICAT. Madame Vicat, a native of Switzerland, was a strenuous advocate for the storifying system; but she entertained con- siderable objections to the perpendicular method, and there- fore invented a hive formed of collateral boxes, which certainly possesses many advantages in which the perpendicular system is wholly deficient. At the same time, we cannot award to Madame Vicat the meed of entire originality, as her hive is but a modification of that of the Abbe della Rocca. Fig. 1. A e j, „ e b em--
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