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the end; or, if no super is on, the frames can be 
lifted out on top as with other hives. This movable 
side or dummy has a window, and there are also 
windows at the back and on the other side, so that 
a good inspection can be had. The floor-board, 
which draws out on the plan adopted by Mr. Cheshire, 
projects two and a half inches along the front, thus 
forming a convenient alighting-board. There is an 
entrance nine inches wide, and the space can be 
lessened by two sliding shutters. The crown of the 
stock-hive is of straw and wood, with a feeding hole. 
“Our new sectional or divisional supers are used 
on top, and when these are put on, a zine adapter, 
perforated all over with holes too narrow to admit 
the queen or drones, takes the place of the straw 
crown. The stock-hive contains twelve of our en- 
larged-sized frames. The upper part of the cover 
falls back on hinges kept in position by a wire or 
chain; it opens at one side, as docs the stock-hive. 
The hive with its cover is complete without any 
further protection from the weather, and it carries 
its own stand. It was very highly commended at 
the Alexandra Palace Bee Show. 
“‘Tts size outside is twenty-five by eighteen inches, 
with a height of twenty-four; the stands are [an 
additional] eleven inches. Price, complete with sec- 
tional supers and zine adapter, 42s.” 
To the above account, which we have pieced to- 
gether from the descriptions in “The Apiary” and 
in Messrs. Neighbour’s catalogue, we may suitably 
append a figure of their ‘Sectional Super” (their 
“Divisional Super” is displayed inside the opened 
