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cept where it is kept by a few as 

 a novelty, but it has frequently 

 given 200 pounds surplus comb 

 honey free from brood in one sea- 

 son. 



Fig. 4. 



We next get the " Stewarton" 

 hive altered from its octagon shape 

 to square, but the other features 

 were preserved. This was done 

 about the year 1872 by the late 

 Mr. C. W. Smith of tolteridge, 

 Herts. He named it the " Curr- 



Stewarton" as a compliment to his 

 friend Mr. Carr of Clayton Bridge, 

 Manchester. (The Carrs formerly 

 spelled their name " Kerr.") The 

 two body boxes were 15 inches 

 square and 6 inches deep, the super 

 boxes 4 inches deep only, and the 

 frames in the super boxes were set 

 two inches apart as in the " Stew- 

 arton." 



Externally, it looks like a "Hed- 

 don" with a sloped, ornamental 

 roof; and when Mr. Jones exhib- 

 ited his " Heddon" in London last 

 year many of us at once cried, 

 " that is our old friend the " Carr- 

 Stewarton" which was not far 

 wrong, as with the exception of 

 the screws for compression there is 

 nothing new in the " Heddon" that 

 is not to be found in the " Carr- 

 Stewarton." '"Inversion" is given 

 up for " interchanging," and the 

 " bee-space" is now liglitly valued. 



We have at least one able advo- 

 cate of the shallow frame in Eng- 

 land who uses a hive very similar 

 to the "Carr-Stewarton." It is Mr. 

 W. B. Carr, one of the coeditors 

 of the Beelceepers' Record. I 

 maintain it is with hives, as it is 

 with ploughs and with men, one is 

 as gootl as the other and more so. 

 Given a hive that is capable of be- 

 ing expanded and contracted and 

 in which the bees can be kept 

 warm and dry, and the rest de- 

 pends more on the owner than on 

 the particular kind of hive. 



I need scarcely say I have not at- 

 tempted to give you a sketch of 

 the history of the bar-frame hive 

 in England, that has run on side 

 by side with what I have given 

 you ; which is but an imperfect ac- 

 count of a storifying, interchange- 

 able-shallow frame, divided brood- 

 chambered hive which we have 

 among us, and which lias given 

 good results, especially before the 

 days of sectional supers. The lat- 

 est move with us seems to run in 

 the direction of a deeper frame 



