138 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
the cuts show in the super, but all are alike immov- 
able and fitted with intervening slides. The super is 
only four inches deep. 
Special instructions are needed for the use of this 
complex structure. The two middle boxes are tied 
together by the aid of the projections at the sides, 
the slides in the lower one are all withdrawn, and 
the sectional ends inserted, and the whole can be then 
reversed and receive a swarm in the usual way. In 
about a week (some do it on the same day) a second 
swarm is hived into the lowest of the four boxes, 
which is kept separate, but close by the side of the 
two others, till dusk, and the latter together are then 
placed on the top of it, when its slides are removed 
and the openings closed by sectional slides, as just 
explained in the case of the other box. The new 
swarm will pass upwards and join its predecessor, 
and on the following morning one of the queens will 
pretty certainly be discovered dead before the hive. 
But the lowest box is not to be brought into working 
use just yet, and now that the bees have deserted it 
and gone higher it is at once withdrawn. In a very 
few days, if the weather is favourable, the two 
remaining boxes will show signs of approaching 
fulness, and now the super is added. Do not withdraw 
all the slides at the top of the upper stock-box, or you 
will have the queen passing into the super too freely; 
but with only one at each side removed, she will be 
less likely to give you annoyance. The next addition 
is the restoration of the lowest box or nadir, which is 
to be effected as soon as requisite, and upon adding 
this the old entrance hole is closed, and that in the 
