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that a bee-keeper has a weakly hive ; it will take some 

 weeks, if not months, to grow populous ; and as soon as 

 the strength of the hive has recovered, the honey seaison 

 will have advanced, if not ended, whilst the strong 

 stocks have been able to take full advantage of the 

 supplies, having an abundance of labourers to collect the 

 honey and store it in supers for their master. To 

 induce the bees to build quickly, cover up the super with 

 as much warm woollen covering as you can, as recom- 

 mended for glasses, page 65 . 



In fine seasons, and under good management, extra 

 supers and body boxes (the latter to be used as 

 "nadirs") maybe required to place above and below 

 the supers and nadirs partly filled, in order to reap the 

 full benefit of the honey season ; for with strong colo- 

 nies one box after another may be inserted, till the whole 

 towers from six to ten boxes high. This plan is, indeed, 

 collecting honey while the sun shines, but requires a 

 greater amount of apiarian skill and good pasturage to 

 carry on in its entirety than is generally possessed. In 

 other words, we in the south may find it difficult to rival 

 our accomplished brother-apiarians north of the Tweed, 

 for they do wonders with the Stewarton hive. 



HUBER'S HIVE. 



To Francis Huber — not improperly styled the ' ' Prince 

 of Apiarians" — we are indebted for more extensive and 



