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Further Objections To A Sectional Hive

Categories: HIVES.
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I can see no other way but to break the box, look her up, and help the

helpless thing home, (the chances of being stung may be here too.) Now,

for a time at least, they must use the other drawer for breeding, where

most of the cells are unfit. There is altogether too great a proportion

of drone-cells; these, as well as the other size, will nearly all be

much too long, and will have to be cut off to the proper length, a

waste of wax as well as labor. Another thing might be set down per

disadvantage of Mr. Cutting's hive; the job of getting a swarm into

such hive, at first, I fancy would not be desirable to many. Now, when

we strike the balance, putting expense, difficulties, and perplexities

on one side, and simplicity and economy on the other, it appears like a

"great cry for little wool." But stop a moment, four other advantages

are enumerated in its favor: second, third, and fourth are borrowed

from the common hive, or are all available here when required. But

fifthly, allows a "column of air between the drawers and outside of the

hive, is a non-conductor of heat and cold," &c. This is an advantage

not possessed by the common hive; neither does the common hive offer

such advantages to the moth, by affording such snug quarters for worms

to spin their cocoons, when they cannot be destroyed without

considerable trouble.



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