III.— MODERN BEE-HIVES. 



NUTT'S COLLATERAL HIVE. 



&HE late Mr. Nutt, author of "Humanity to- 

 Honey Bees," may be regarded as a pioneer of 

 modem apiarians ; we therefore select his hive where- 

 with to begin a description of those we have confidence 

 in recommending. Besides, an account of Mr. Nutt's 

 hive will necessarily include references to the various 

 principles which subsequent inventors have kept in 

 view. 



Nutt's Collateral Hive consists of three boxes placed 

 side by side (c, a, c), with an octagonal box b on the top, 

 which covers a bell-glass. Each of the three boxes is 

 nine inches high, nine inches wide, and eleven inches 

 from back to front. Thin wooden partitions, in which 

 six or seven openings corresponding with each other are 

 made, divide these compartments, so that free access 

 from one box to the other is afforded to the bees ; this 

 eommunication is stopped, when necessary, by a zinc 



