. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 91. The box hive is thus made :—Plate ii. fig. i. and fig. ii., two boxes made to part in two, is eighteen and a half inches high, or nine and a quarter inches each high, and ten inches square. t It consists of a frame, a a doors on three of the sides, the forepost having a fixed cover. The two boxes are fixed together by means of hasps. The top box has a cover, moving on hinges, and secured in the forepart with a lock. Within this the upper box are sliding frames, in which the bees made their combs, fig. 2, c c. T
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 91. The box hive is thus made :—Plate ii. fig. i. and fig. ii., two boxes made to part in two, is eighteen and a half inches high, or nine and a quarter inches each high, and ten inches square. t It consists of a frame, a a doors on three of the sides, the forepost having a fixed cover. The two boxes are fixed together by means of hasps. The top box has a cover, moving on hinges, and secured in the forepart with a lock. Within this the upper box are sliding frames, in which the bees made their combs, fig. 2, c c. This frame is three and a quarter inches thick, eight inches wide, and eight and half inches in depth, and each frame has four slides, two in front and two at the back, a fig. i., each an inch wide, and half an inch asunder; intended to prevent the bees extending their combs to the glass, which would render the taking them but inconvenient. There is an upright partition, e in the middle of which there is a division of half an inch, to aftbrd an easy passage to the bees; and two similar passages in the bottom, to give a free passage to the bees to go from one box to another ; for this box stands on a lower box, which, instead of sliders to contain the combs, has six bars, to which the bees fix the combs in the lower box. The two boxes are fixed together by means of hasps as already stated. The lower box has three panes of glass fixed in the three doors, with brads, which are easily drawn out, when there is occa- sion to take out the panes of glass. Between the upper and lower boxes there is a slider /, which is put jn when the frames with the combs are taken out of the upper boxes, or when the upper box is changed. A like slider is put into the bottom. After such an elaborate and puzzling a description of Mr. Thomas Wildman's new invention, I sliould not be surprised to find your readers declaring, " Give me again a hol- low ; W. AUGUSTUS MUNN. VENITLATION. Dear
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