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inch thick, it is, of course, requisite, and must have the 

 protection of a Bee-house or shed from the direct rays 

 of the sun ; or better still, an outer octagon case, with a 

 nicely bevelled roof, and an ornamental vase on top, forms 

 a most picturesque adjunct of the Apiary or garden. 



" So soon as the lowest super is seen sealed at the 

 windows, the attachments between it and the stock and 

 second super, severed with a thin wire, it had better be 

 removed, the next lowest taking its place, and so on till 

 the end of the season. When all are removed, and slides 

 reintroduced, then, as cold weather sets in, and the 

 lowest breeding-box vacated, it, too, is better taken 

 away, the slides replaced, the mouth wrapped carefully 

 up with paper to exclude moth and dust, and suspended 

 in any cool dry garret till required the next season." 



The Carr Stewarton Hive.— This hive, designed 

 by Mr. C. W. Smith, is a modification, and, in some 

 respects, an improvement on the original " Stewarton," 

 and is, in my opinion, by far the handsomest hive made, 

 especially when worked in straw, as shewn in the 

 woodcut ; it then becomes quite an ornament to the 

 lawn or garden. It is manufactured by James Lee, of 

 Bagshot, Berkshire. Combined in it are many of the 

 advantages of the best bar-frame hives, as well as those 

 of the far-famed Stewarton. A hive may consist of one, 

 two, or three stock-boxes and a honey-box. The stock- 

 boxes are 15 inches square, and 6 inches in depth. The 

 honey-box is but 4 inches deep. Each stock-box is 

 furnished with nine moveable wedge-shaped bar-frames, 

 guides, windows front and back, &c. The honey-box 

 contains seven wide bars for honey-combs, the spaces 

 between the bars being fitted with slides, like the octa- 

 gonal Stewartons. A crown-board, having slats and 

 slides of the same gauge as those in the honey-box, is 



