STRAW DEPRIVING HIVES. 638 
than most of the makers.* Their very simplest 
construction of this class is on a pattern already 
described, consisting merely of a common skep, with 
a second, its exact miniature, standing upon it. The 
price of this hive is 5s. Gd. Much superior to this is 
the one here represented (price 10s. 6d.), which is 
termed the ‘The Cottager’s 
Hive.” It has its super of a 
very shallow construction and 
provided with a window; while 
the cover-hive, superior floor- 
board, and hooped base add 
to the completeness and dura- 
bility of the whole. The crown 
of the stock-hive is flat enough 
to receive an adapting-board. 
A very much more elaborate 
structure than either of these, 
or perhaps than any skep hive 
hitherto made, is the one sold 
by this firm under the name of 
‘Neighbours’ Improved Cottage 
Hive,” of which an enlarged representation is given 
overleaf. The stock-hive is furnished with a wooden 
crown-board, as well as with three windows closing by 
hinged shutters and one of them containing a ther- 
mometer inside; the hive itself being hinged to 
the floor-board. Upon it stand three bell-glasses 
holding six pounds of honey each, and supplied with 
green baize bags for increasing the warmth; while 
_* Messrs. C. J. Sanders and Son (223, High Holborn) provide a 
similar series, and we have some obligations to acknowledge to them. 
