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also be handled much more quickly; the dimensions over 

 all are igVs inches by QVs inches. 



The half-storey body is sometimes used with this hive 

 for producing comb, and often for extracted-honey. This 

 half-body is very similar to a section of the Bolton hive. 

 In Fig. 15 the half-body is shown raised above the hive ; 

 Fig. 17 is a section of same fitted up for comb-honey 

 production. Another view is shown under the heading 

 of Comb-honey. When fitted up for building comb, the 

 half -body is referred to as a comb-super, and may be used 

 equally well with the Bolton hive. 



BOLTON HIVE. 



As reference to the illustration will show, the Bolton 

 hive (Fig. 14) is composed of any number (mostly four 

 to six) of shallow bodies capable of being used with the 

 bottom-board and cover of a Langstroth hive. The bodies 

 of the Bolton hive measure 20 inches by 13% inches by 

 5% inches deep. The Langstroth style usually has the 

 brood-chamber in one body; but the Bolton hive is 

 peculiar in using two shallow bodies as a brood-nest. 

 The comb space of two Bolton bodies is equal to that of 

 a ten-frame Langstroth. This peculiarity of a divided 

 brood-nest has earned for itself the cognomen of "The 

 divisible hive." 



The manipulation of this hive is necessarily different 

 from that of the Langstroth pattern. It is capable of 

 inversion (i.e. turning the body upside down) because 

 the hanging frames (Figs. 16 and 14) are tightly wedged 

 together by a follower (represented over the hive in Fig. 

 16) with pressure derived from two thumbscrews in the 

 side. The follower has two pieces of metal attached to 

 take the ends of the screws and prevent them boring into 

 the wood. This is also used in the comb-honey super for 

 crowding the sections together in a similar manner. 



A great many advantages are claimed for this hive. 

 The chief one is that it permits the handling of hives 



