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again, if allowed to do so. An empty glass should be 

 put on to the hive in place of the full one, as it will 

 attract the bees up, thereby preventing the too close 

 crowding of the hive ; and, if the summer be not too far 

 advanced, they will work more honeycomb in it. 



The removal of the end boxes is a somewhat similar 

 process, but they should on no account be taken away, 

 at the same time as the glass, or, indeed, at a time 

 when any other hive is being — rolled we were going to 

 say, for it is robbery to the bees : they intended the 

 honey for their winter food, and are much enraged at 

 being deprived of it. First shut down the dividing tin ; 

 the bees in the end box are now prisoners separated 

 from the hive ; keep them so half an hour, and then take 

 away the box bodily to another part of the garden, or 

 into the dark out-house, as before recommended. 



It may not be out of place here to say something 

 respecting the enthusiastic inventor of the collateral 

 hive — Thomas Nutt — who was an inhabitant of Spalding, 

 in Lincolnshire. Having been disabled during a con- 

 siderable period by rheumatic fever, he devoted all his 

 attention to bees, at a time when bee-culture was but 

 little valued ; and, although it must be admitted that two 

 boxes were used side by side long before Mr. Nutt's 

 day, still it is due to him to state that the adop- 

 tion of three boxes was entirely his own idea, and that, 

 so far as he then knew, the collateral system was 

 his original invention. His statements have been 



