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the same time using many combs under the sections as and 

 for extracted honey — a most unsatisfactory process, by which 

 few finished sections can be obtained unless my plan of filling 

 the same with worked-out comb is adopted. 



Bee-keepers generally have saved over unfinished combs in 

 sections from year to year, and these were found to give a 

 good start to the bees, but nothing was done to institute the 

 systematic production of such new white combs for all sections 

 before being placed on the hive until the present system was 

 inaugurated. 



All that has ever been given as to the manipulation of the 

 Stewarton Hive relates chiefly to the insertion of several 

 swarms into the set of boxes. This does not look like pre- 

 vention, and moreover, whether with swarms or established 

 stocks the principle did not consist in keeping the same or any 

 empty chamber always below the brood nest. In hives 3 feet 

 long it is claimed that in America the plan was tried 20 years 

 .since. The bees in this case working from back to front all on 

 the same level. Here the combs were removed as completed at 

 the front. 



Just here the Reader will not fail to see the diiference — a 

 contrast decidedly in favour of my own plan, which is this : 

 The surplus is worked and continually removed from above, 

 while no attention is needed below or in front of the brood 

 combs ; as in the first place no combs are there permitted to 

 become completed, and the same frames remain in the same 

 place all the season, because with careful attention above little- 

 or no comb is built in them, as my own experience has shewn. 



While' many consider that they have no need to prevent 

 the issue of swarms, and can obtain better results by allowing 

 one swarm to each colony, there are, many districts where the 

 season is of short duration, and the largest surplus is only 

 obtained by prevention. The system, moreover, should be of 

 advantage to all, enabling increase to be made at the most 

 fitting opportunity ; and not, as is too often the case, just as a 

 good honey-flow is on. 



