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necessary to prevent warping and splitting, and not 
unfrequently the melting of the combs. Some German 
bee-keepers have recommended box-hives made long 
from back to front, and narrow from side to side. In 
fact, one of their most approved hives follows the prin- 
ciple of “high and narrow” so strongly condemned by 
Mr. Taylor; it may correctly be comparcd to a small 
glass-case standing end foremost. 
BAR HIVES. 
Under the heading ‘Wooden Bar Boxes” our 
author furnished a lengthy section, much of which 
might be readily made applicable to the frame hives 
which have now, as far as stock-hives are concerned, 
rendered the simple bars all but an anomaly. The 
Stewarton hive, so popular in Scotland, and indced 
in England too, is however an example of their reten- 
tion ; and they continue to be extensively employed in 
the supers of frame hives. The use of the bars—a use 
which the addition of complete frames secures with 
very much more completeness—is to prompt the bees 
