These covers are painted green, that colour being generally preferred. ORNAMENTAL ZINC COVER. No. 38. [Illustration] The annexed engraving of the Ornamental Zinc Cover renders but little description necessary. The illustration shows one of our No. 5 improved cottage hives on a stand. Three clumps of wood must be driven into the ground, and the three iron rods supporting the covering made fast to them with screws. There are screw holes in the feet of the iron rods for the purpose; when thus secured, but little fear need be entertained of its being blown over by high winds. In the roof two pulleys are fixed, so that by attaching a cord, the upper hive covering the bell glass supers may be raised with facility for the purpose of observing the progress made by the bees. The Ornamental Zinc Cover will form a pleasing object in the flower garden when placed in a suitable position on the grass plot. It is painted green; the iron rods are of such a length as to support the roof at a convenient height from the ground. COVER OF ZINC. No. 29. [Illustration] This zinc cover introduced by H. Taylor, Esq., for his cottage hive (No. 14) will also be found useful as a protection from wet for many other descriptions of round straw hives. BELL GLASSES. [Illustration: 25.] [Illustration: 26.] [Illustration: 27.] 25. To contain 10 lbs., 10 inches high, 7 inches wide. 26. To contain 6 lbs., 7 inches high, 5½ inches wide. 27. To contain 3 lbs., 5 inches high, 4 inches wide. These bell glasses are used in the hives before described. No. 25 is for Nutt's Hive (No. 1); No. 26 is for our Improved Cottage Hive (No. 5); No. 27 is a very small glass, one that is not often used, and which we do not recommend. Bees will generally fill a middle sized glass quite as soon as one so small as this. BELL GLASSES. No. 24. [Illustration] These glasses have been introduced by Mr. Taylor, and are recommended as preferable to deep narrow glasses. The drawings will show that they are straight at the sides, flat at the top inside, with a knob outside to take hold by, through which is an ½ inch opening to admit a ventilating tube. The larger is 6 inches deep, 12 inches wide; smaller 5 inches deep, 9½ inches wide. [Illustration] The late Mr. J. H. Payne, of Bury, author of the "Bee-keeper's Guide," introduced another glass. It has a 3 inch hole in the centre, the purpose of which is to tempt bees to produce additional and larger stores of honey. It is to be used as follows:--when a bell glass is half or quite filled, raise it, and place the Payne's glass over the hole of the stock hive, with the filled glass on it over the 3 inch hole. The bees will bring their combs through, and thus Mr. Payne found that they would store more honey than if the bell glass were removed and another empty one put in its place. Of course the first glass must be smaller in diameter than the Payne's glass, so as to rest upon it. BELL GLASS. No. 28. [Illustration]