,§vii.] NUTTS COLLATERAL HIVE. 



§ VII. NUTT'S COLLATERAL HIVE. 



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The late Mr. Nutt, author of " Humanity to Honey 

 Bees," may be regarded as a pioneer of modem apia- 

 rians ; and though his hive is now comparatively little 

 used it is still worthy of description from the part it 

 has played in the history of bee-keeping. 



It consists of three boxes placed side by side (c, a, c), 

 with an octagonal box (b) on the top, which covers a 

 bell glass. Each of the three boxes is nine inches high, 

 the same wide, and eleven inches from back to front. 

 Thin wooden partitions, in which six or seven openings 

 corresponding with each other are made, divide these 

 compartments, so that free access from one box to the 

 other is afforded to the bees ; this communication is 



