130 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
a hipped cover. The stock-box is enclosed by four 
panels, moving up and down in grooves or rabbets cut 
in the corner pilasters, the latter being attached to 
the box, 
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This mode of applying the nadir, or rather nether 
principle, must not be confounded with the usual plan 
of disturbing the stock-hive for the purpose of placing 
an empty one beneath it, with a new entrance in the 
latter for the bees. Under such circumstances the 
queen will commonly descend and breed in the nadir, 
