 | Asia - 1832 - 600 pages
...little convex in the middle, but with the edges made flush with the wall by a luting of clay mortar ; and the other extremity is shut by a similar dish,...about a third of an inch in diameter in its centre. The mode adopted there for preserving the old swarm, when the honey is taken, well deserves imitation... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 436 pages
...made Hush with the wall by a luting of clay mortar, and the other extremity is shut by a similar disk, having a circular hole about a third of an inch in diameter in the centre. It does not appear that there is any particular rule for the height of thesr hives from... | |
 | 1836 - 284 pages
...little convex iu the middle, but with the edges made flush with the wall by a luting of clay mortar ; and the other extremity is shut by a similar dish,...about a third of an inch in diameter in its centre. There is no particular part of the house assigned as the proper situation of these hives, as they are... | |
 | 1842 - 488 pages
...cylinder nearest to the apartment is closed by a round platter of red pottery- ware, a little convex in the middle, but the edges are made flush with the wall, by a luting of clay mortar, and the other extremity is shut by a similar dish, having a circular hole, about a third... | |
 | william blackwood - 1849 - 764 pages
...little convex in the middle, but with the edges made flush with the wall by a luting of clay mortar; and the other extremity is shut by a similar dish,...about a third of an inch in diameter in its centre. These hives are sometimes confined to the walls of the lower or basement story, generally appropriated... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1871 - 1174 pages
...cylinder nearest to the apartment is closed by a round platter of red pottery ware, a little convex in the middle, but the edges are made flush with the...about a third of an inch in diameter, in its centre. There is not any particular rule for the height of hives from the ground. So little difference eiists... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1871 - 1170 pages
...round platter of red pottery ware, a little convex in the middle, but the edges are made flush witli the wall by a luting of clay-mortar and the other...about a third of an inch in diameter, in its centre. There is not any particular rule for the height of hives from the ground. So little difference exi«ts... | |
 | Edward Balfour - East Asia - 1885 - 1302 pages
...cylinder nearest to the apartment is closed by a round platter of red pottery ware, a little convex in the middle, but the edges are made flush with the wall by a luting of clay mortar, and the extremity is shut by a similar dish, haying a circular hole, about a third of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 508 pages
...cylinder nearest to the apartment is closed by a round platter of red pottery ware, a little convex in the middle, but the edges are made flush with the...about a third of an inch in diameter, in its centre. farmhouses of Kashmir ; at others, are inserted into those of the first floor ; but are frequently... | |
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The dimensions of a hive are, on an average, about fourteen inches in diameter, and, when closed at both ends, about twenty or twenty-two inches in length. That end of the cylinder nearest to the apartment is closed by a round platter of red pottery ware,... 