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nadir opened. There are now three boxes in the 
stock-hive, but if the bees take to storing honey in the 
nadir, you may open more of the slides into the super, 
and add a second, and it may be a third super. 
Indeed, we are told of the continued addition of 
supers and nadirs till a pile of eight or ten boxes has 
been reared. 
The supers as filled will successively take their 
departure in the same manner as other supers; and as 
the cold weather approaches, the nadirs must be 
removed too. The two original stock-boxes will then 
remain well wrapped up through the winter. 
The maker of this hive is Mr. James Allan, of 
Stewarton, Ayrshire; but it can be obtained through 
other dealers ata slight increase in price to cover 
carriage. Messrs. Neighbour quote the price of 21s., 
including a floor-board. This is for the four regular 
boxes, additional ones being extra. 
Octagonal hives possess one theoretical advantage 
over square ones in the fact of their being a much 
nearer approach to the circular form, which naturally 
is the one in which the interior warmth is most 
uniformly diffused, with a freedom from cold corners. 
The gentleman known as ‘‘A Renfrewshire Bee- 
Keeper” claims this as an important advantage in 
winter time, and doubtless the balance is on its side. 
But the universal desire for the application of the 
frame system will long continue to obtain the pre- 
ference for square hives in which the frames can be 
freely transposed. The gentleman just named has 
partially met the objection by an adaptation known 
as the “Renfrewshire Stewarton,” in which all the 
