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Slide-drawer hive

Two labeled technical drawings of a wooden beehive box showing an inclined slatted bottom, hinged back, and multiple stacked and side slide-drawers with perforated partitions for bee passage.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESAlexander Hogg · September 22, 1863

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