104 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
the necessity for two figures. The side openings are 
provided with a duplicate pair of slides, which are 
made with queen-preventing perforations; and these 
will be kept always inserted when the super is in use. 
The latter can 
be had wholly of 
glass (except of 
course the frame- 
work at the 
edges), or else 
like the one here 
shown, which, 
like the hive it- 
self, is formed of 
= straw, but with 
three windows. 
It is similar to 
the stock - hive, 
but is only two-thirds of its depth, and its frames 
number eight instead of nine. They are, however, 
bond fide frames (as shown through the window in the 
frent of the figure), and not mere bars as usual in 
supers. An exit is afforded to the bees from the 
super without compelling them to return to the stock- 
hive (the outer cover of course requiring to have a 
corresponding hole). The flight-hole is made wide, 
but with provision for narrowing (it is shown most 
clearly in the wooden hive in the preceding figure). 
The price of the stock-hive in wood or straw 
is 25s.; a straw super is the same, and a glass 
one 30s. (this being provided with complete baize-lined 
shutters to top and sides). 
