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Multi-tier hive housing

An isometric line drawing of a long wooden bee-house with a gabled roof, its side wall removed to reveal four stacked rows of small hive compartments, each with its own door, handle, and bee entrance, alongside a plan view and a close-up perspective of individual pocket compartments.

Improvement in Apiaries or Bee-HousesWilliam Erwin · September 10, 1878

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