STRAW DEPRIVING HIVES. 65 
Cottage Hive.” It has a wooden crown-board with 
zine slides, and behind it a window; while the 
super is octagonal with open- 
ing glass sides. This is sold 
at 22s. 6d.; but with a straw 
super and no window a hive 
of like construction (‘‘The 
Economic Hive’) can be had 
for 11s., or without the floor- 
board 7s. 6d. 
Our next cut exhibits ‘ Lee’s 
Octagon Straw Hive,” which = 
furnishes a connecting link with the bar hives de- 
scribed further on ; both it and its super being 
provided with fired bars ranging front and back 
beneath the crown. The 
super has glass sides 
and top lke the one 
shown above, and ac- 
cess is given to it by 
the slits at each side 
of the crown-board. 
The price of the stock- 
hive is £1, the supers 
varying according to 
make. The cover is 
shown at the end of the section on ‘‘ Frame Hives.” 
As to the course of procedure to be observed with 
hives of this class, the same general directions will 
apply to all that we have yet described. The lower or 
stock hive is devoted entirely to the use of the queen, 
and whatever honey is there deposited must be left 
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