306 A Modern Bee-Farm 
The Double Conqueror 
was introduced by the Author in 1894, and unlike the 
Well’s hive, the chambers are quite distinct, being simply 
the Author’s usual hanging eleven-frame chambers, and the 
non-swarming chamber (a super started) under each. In 
fact it is arranged as two single Conquerors back to back, 
having an excluder zinc passage-way between, which may 
be opened or closed at will. 
The Management 
of the Double and Treble Conquerors is quite simple, and 
heavy yields are secured from them. Swarming, Dividing 
or Uniting (or the removal of bees from finished supers) 
may be carried out merely by shifting one of the slides, 
which results in “Turning Over” or “ Turning Back ” the 
whole of the working force of one side to the other- as 
desired, while the bees hardly know the difference. 
On page 242 of my 1893 edition of this work will be 
found formulated the first definite and workable system of 
using two stocks (or one stock and its swarm) in combina- 
tion. Other plans since offered all fall short of the 
simplicity of the Conqueror Double and Treble hives, 
which require no alteration in construction for developing 
any number of combinations or divisions. 
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The “ Turnover,” with Two Stocks. 
The Double Conqueror has two entrances to each stock 
(therefore two at the back and two at the front). Conse- 
quently when the two stocks are strong enough one is 
supered, while the other has its entrance closed. ‘This 
throws all the actual workers into the one supered hive, 
while the queen of the denuded stock fills up rapidly with 
brood, having few gatherers to clog the cells with honey. 
When thus “ turning over” the middle excluder partition 
