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    and habits of the bee. We should know what from cold and from the ravages
of the miller.
    hive is best adapted to their wants, and what It is constructed in such
a manner as to carry
    one is best arranged to give us perfect control off all dampness or moisture
oceasioned by the
    of the bee and its stores; what is the best breath of the bees, or other
causes, by me-ins
    summer arrangement, also what is the best of a ventilator at the top
of the hive, on
    system for wintering, whether under protection which is suspended a lamp
of tin, ef simple
    or in the open air?                           construction, by whose
light thousands of these
    Since the introduction of the movable frames annoying insects are lured
to certain destruc-
    by Rev. L. L. Langstroth, the nature of the tion. This lamp will protect
a space of forty
    honey bee is becoming so generally understood feet, and can be use with
any kind of dirty
    that there is scarcely a new hive made, or a grease or oil.
    new apiary started, without the introduction  There is also another advantage
to be de-
  of his system. My experiment has been with rived from the use of this hive:
The honey can
  the Langstroth hive, and it has been highly at any time be removed, beautiful,
transparent
  satisfactory in its results. The following table and white, without disturbing
the bees: this
  will show the time they were put into winter is done by means of boxes
places on the top of
  quarters, and the time they were taken out the hive.  This is what we have
long desired
  again, with the amount of honey consumned by -a hive that would protect
the bees from the
  each Ptock, as shown by dates. They were all inclemencies of the weather,
from the ravages
  wintered in the cellar except those otherwise of the miller, and fi om
all dampness and ia-
  marked.                                       purities occasioned by the
tightness of the
     when lbs hon- when tak- lbs hon- lbs hon- lbs used hive and other exposures,
leaving the bees in
     putin ey then en out. ey then. ey MayI to May 7
     1862          18es                       spring perfectly healthy  
M. LiviNaITON.
  I Nov. 15  21   March 26  13    6fi     14y,
  2-     5   2          5   !    11       is
  3     15 2   1       6234  4   15       1         A Short Chapter on Patent
Bee Hives.
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  *is   7         215 t 3   ...             MB. EDITOR :-Patent beehive venders
have
  6     15   33         13  24   1634     161
  i    1    24         26   17   11       13  been around here this season,
and have hum-
  8     15   14        26    8    2       121
  9 1    .. 27         26   15    7       20   bugged quite a number of my
neighbors.
  1           25        26   17    7       18   Among the pedlers is a man
with H. Kelsey's
  12          22        15   15    7       IS   movable comb hive-a hive
that will not work
  13     ..   12        26  t 5 ..
  14          38        16   81   21       17   for two reasons: First, his
frames are placed
  15           5        26  t 0 ..     .
  16          5         ... ... ...        ... too far apart; it wants one
more frame in each
  17    *20                  11
  IS                    20   13    4            side. Secondly, he has a
division fixed per-
  * Buried. t Fed from this tLhne out. IDied queenles ma. ently in the centre
of the hive. This makes
  awintered in the open air and did not wefrgh them until
  arch 26, 1863.                              each side too small for breeding
purposes, be-
  Would it not be just as unwise in principle sides which, it is thus made
a nice plaoe to
to think of wintering bees without knowing raise the moth miller.
the amount of honey, as it would be to attempt  Now, in such a hive as that,
no bee keeper can
the wintering of a stock of cattle without have success in this northern
latitude. The
knowing the amount of provender on hand, or whole truth of the matter is
just this: the
necessary for their consumption .9         man did not understand his business.
For, if
  RORENDAL2, May 251, I.                      he had understood the nature
of the bee, he
                                              would never have got up such
a thing as that
          Morehouse's Patent Hive.           for bees to live in. I have
no interest in any
  'nR. EDITOR:-I have heard a great deal said hive humbug whatever, and I
do not like to
on the subject of bee hives; and nAy opinion see my neighbors injured, in
this or any other
is that the hive invented by M. Morehouse is way. My advice is, subscribe
for the FARMER,
the best now in use. It is a self-protector both and then you can ask for
information about