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Front elevation drawing of a wooden beehive showing two triangular pivoted comb-frames inside a divided chamber, ledges labeled K, small moth-trap boxes q along the base, and a hive cap H above with square honey-box openings.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOTH-TRAPS.Jacob Neal · June 8, 1875

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