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bars are movable, and the four central ones (those of 
full lensth) have frames attached. Many, however, 
will give preference to the form of the *‘ Carr-Stewarton 
Hive,” which, if it had no other point in its favour, 
micht well claim our notice from its forming the 
pretliest home for bees that has perhaps ever been 
constructed. Its inventor is Mr. C. W. Smith, and 
its maker Mr. James Lee, who supplies with it a 
circular containing full particulars of its structure as 
well as its mode of use. It is made of straw, with 
wooden frame-work, and a picturesque zine roof. The 
two stock-boxes, which are fifteen inches square and 
six deep, are each furnished with nine frames made 
slightly wider at top than at bottom with a view to 
giving greater facility for extraction. From the 
greater capacity as compared with the regular 
Stewarton, one stock-box becomes sufficient for start- 
ing with at the beginning of the season, that box being 
the equivalent of the two which are fastened together 
in the prototype, and the lower one being the nadir to 
be added when required. The bars of the frames are 
like ordinary ones, but there is a crown-board 
furnished with four Stewarton slides, two at each side. 
The honey-box, which is four inches deep, and wholly 
of wood, has seven of the old form of Stewarton 
bars-—an arrangement which, one would think, might 
very well have been improved upon when the other 
desirable changes were made. 
Mr. Smith speaks of the ready adaptability of the 
stock-boxes to the purpose of nucleus hives (as to which 
see a subsequent section). ‘As each stock-box,” he 
says, ‘‘when placed on a floor-board will form a 
