MACHINES AND IMPLEMENTS.

On the South Side : Areas N. O. 1 ; P. Q. 11. 1 to 27.

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n addition to the bees contained in the glass case, arear I .°i US beehives made of cork, wood, and straw. Therelj 0 e a ^ So models of beehives and apiaries, and a glass ofhily C ^ Sphered in the year 1837. This specimen is ex-ho ' tei ^ t0 P rove the extraordinary length of time pureae y can be preserved. It weighs 26 lbs.jy. a r and frame hive, invented by William AugustusEsq., Throwley House, near Feversham, Kent ,ter' a d va ntages claimed consists in the whole of the in-lor of the hive being open to inspection at any moment,

and a choice can be made of the combs containing themost honey, &c., and this without the assistance of smoke,as each bee-frame, and the bees and combs contained in it,can be drawn up and examined in the observation frame(as shown in the adjoining sketch) without interferingwith any other part of the hive, or occasioning the loss,or even escape of a single bee. The hive is shown inoperation, with the comb brought into the observationframe; one frame is also seen through the side of thebox, to show how it is suspended in the triangular case.

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