114 THE BEE-KEEPER'S MANUAL. 
of tke corner pillars. Of course only one of these 
supers is to be applied at first; the second, as 
usual, being placed beneath this when it has become 
in good part filled, and there is prospect of a suffi- 
ciently good season to require the two. ‘‘In shallow 
supers,” says Mr. Cheshire, ‘bees start more promptly 
than in deep ones, while they ever strive to close 
up gaps; hence the advisability of having two.” 
In outside dimensions this hive is about twenty- 
four inches wide by twenty-two from front to rear, 
while from the ground to the eaves it stands three 
feet hich. Its cost when fixed to its stand is 387s. 6d. 
painted, or 45s. grained and varnished; with ordi- 
nary floor-board and no stand it is 27s. 6d. These 
prices all include the pair of Lee’s supers, which 
sell by themselves at 5s. 6d., or 8s. each. The hive 
and the supers each obtained for their inventors a 
first prize at the Crystal Palace Bee Show in 1874. 
The full particulars from which most of the above 
is reproduced have been avowedly designed by Mr. 
Cheshire for the benefit of those who wish to make for 
themselves. It is scarcely necessary to state that in so 
doing they will not be compelled to tie themselves to 
the Woodbury depth and length, nor even, if they do 
not incline, to any one particular external figure. All 
that is essential in the above will readily adapt itself 
to several variations, and in fact the improvements 
introduced by the Cheshire hive have furnished the 
type from which the best adaptations of other English 
makers have in a large degree taken their start. The 
trade, with scarcely an exception, will cheerfully admit 
this fact. 
