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Title: A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive
With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year

Author: W. Augustus Munn

Release Date: September 18, 2006 [eBook #19319]

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A DESCRIPTION OF THE BAR-AND-FRAME-HIVE,

Invented by

W. AUGUSTUS MUNN, ESQ.

With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management
of Bees Throughout the Year.

Ipsa autem, seu corticibus tibi suta cavatis,
Seu lento fuerint alvearia vimine texta,
Angustos habeant aditus; nam frigore mella
Cogit hiems, eademque calor liquefacta remittit.

Virgil, _G. lib._ iv.

London:
John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row.
M.DCCC.XLIV.

London
Printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson, and Fley,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.

PREFACE

Having been frequently requested to explain the use of the
_bar-and-frame-hive_, in the management of bees, I have been induced to
print the following pamphlet, to point out the advantages this new hive
possesses over the common ones.

I have added extracts from various authorities to show t