78 A Modem Bee-Farm 



and from these my best results have almost invariably been . 

 secured. 



Inside, we have first the lower chamber (whether shallow 

 or full depth, arranged- for prevention of swarming) which 

 touches neither the floor nor stock chamber above it, thus 

 entirely doing away with propolisation at these points, and 

 enabling such non-swarming arrangement to be examined 

 with ease at any time required. The brood chamber comes 

 next, and on this the supers may rest if desired. The hive 

 can also be used with neither of the boxes touching its 

 neighbour ; or with the old-style close-fitting arrangements as 

 may be required. 



Room is allowed for three sets of sections where one is 

 placed under the stock in place of another body of full size ; 

 otherwise, two only, as it is not desirable to have a deeper 

 case. The hive proper is capable of holding either eleven or 

 twelve frames, while the lower chamber will take as many 

 more. For extracting, another takes the place of the sections, 

 so that in all, nearly three dozen standard frames may be 

 used for that purpose. 



The side walls of the body boxes are only 8^-in. deep, 

 yet the space between the respective chambers is so care- 

 fully regulated that the distance between the several tiers 

 of frames never varies. There are no two level surfaces- 

 drop upon each other anywhere about the body boxes or 

 supers, and therefore very little propolisation, and less risk 

 of crushing bees. 



Notwithstanding the open space between the lower and 

 upper ~ chamber (and the other compartments when so ar- 

 ranged), and around the same, it may be as well to meet 

 any enquiry regarding this arrangement by at once stating 

 that with empty frames having simple wax guides directly 

 under the brood-nest, comb building will never be carried 

 on outside of the hive proper, and seldom to any extent 

 in the lower frames, where the surplus is properly looked, 

 after. 



