98 A MANUAL OF BEE-KEEPING. 



shutters are placed in the back and front of pach box, 

 and an entrance is cut out of the front, 5 inches in width 

 by ^ an inch in height. In addition to the set of breed- 

 ing-boxes, shallow honey-boxes, 4 inches in depth, con- 

 taining seven bars 1^5 inches wide, are used as supers. They 

 are furnished with buttons and hooks for the purpose of 

 securing them together, and have no entrance in front. 



The accompanying sectional sketch will illustrate the 

 make of the bars or frames. 



Fig. 38. Fig. 39. 



These hives are made in great perfection at Stewar- 

 ton, and are marvellously cheap. Two breeding-boxes 

 and one honey-box, without floor-board, are; I believe, 

 sold for I2S. 6d. 



An eminent Apiarian, who writes under the nom de 

 plume of " A Renfrewshire Bee-Keeper," has written so 

 able an article on the Stewarton hive and system, that I 

 cannot do better than quote it almost verbatim : — 



"The general mode of manipulating the Stewarton 

 hive is to lash a couple of breeding-boxes together at 

 the weighing-hooks with cord. After the bars of the 

 boxes have been duly furnished with comb, or embossed 

 wax sheet, run in the sliding door of the upper, and 

 withdraw all the slides of the lower compartments ; then 

 close the openings with the little pegs accompanying 

 the boxes. With the free communication between, the 

 two become, to all intents and purposes, one; the Bees 

 may. then be introduced — a prime swarm, of course. 

 Some eight or ten days thereafter a second prime 

 swarm, if procurable, is hived in the third breeding-box, 



