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the future use of the bees. The boxes are readily 
adjusted by means of buttons, and each has a_ set 
of hooks attached to give facilities for lifting and 
weighing. 
““In a communication 
received from one who has 
had large experience on 
the Scottish moors with 
these hives, he says, ‘In a 
good season I have known 
a skilful hand take honey 
to the value of six or 
seven pounds sterling 
from a _ single hive, 
besides leaving an ample 
store for winter.’ ” 
In the two figures the broad white spaces on the top 
of the hive must be taken for the bars, and the narrow 
and partially shaded ones for the slides, or else the 
grooves in which these move. In the first figure 
these are represented as partly withdrawn, and pro- 
jectine over the back of the hive. The arrangement 
by means of which the bars and slides fit so closely 
together was shown in section upon page 97. The 
“little blocks of wood” by which the openings are 
closed when one of the slides is removed are techni- 
cally known as ‘“‘sectional slides.” These hives are 
made in Scotland by specially-prepared machinery, 
and it will be a formidable affair for the bee-keeper 
to construct one for himself; the Scotch maker, how- 
ever, does not send out floor-boards with them. The 
three stock-boxes contain nine bars to the seven which 
