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V-shaped floor

A vertical cross-section drawing of a wooden bee-hive box with an upper glazed super containing frames, a lower brood chamber with hanging frames, a V-shaped sloping floor leading to a narrow center entrance flanked by grooved blocks, drain tubes descending to a trough below, and the whole structure standing on four legs set into small water-filled cups.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESThomas Albion Atkinson · June 5, 1877

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