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magnificent supers seem to throw into tlie shade all other 

 results of bee-keeping. But in the same year Mr Fox 

 got " an octagon box of fine white comb/' which weighed 

 93 lb. 4 oz., ftom a swarm of June 28, 1863. Here is 

 a late swarm yielding a super 93 lb. weight. If the 

 swarm had come off four or six weeks sooner, which is 

 the usual time, the probability is very great that it would 

 have overtaken and outrun those that never swarmed at 

 all. Well might Mr Fox say, as he does in a letter be- 

 fore us, " These glasses were exceedingly beautiful, but 

 the risk and fatigue of removing them were great; and as 

 I never like to ask assistance, in case of an accident, I 

 had to exert myself too much." 



Mr Fox's supers were filled on the adjusting principle. 

 The above sketch will enable the reader to form a pretty 

 correct idea as to the way in which it is carried out, and 

 how Mr Fox succeeded in inducing his bees to fill such 

 large glasses. The supers fitted or slipped over the out- 

 sides of the hives, and were let down so far that their 

 crowns were not far from the crowns of the hives. The 



