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by passing down a knife. These boxes are one inch 

 deeper than those of the ordinary Stewarton. We must 

 say we do not consider that there is quite the same 

 facility for extracting combs as with other movable 

 comb hives described in these pages, but this may be 

 an element of success — it possesses the opportunity 

 without the facility. Many indiscreet bee-keepers are 

 tempted to disturb their bees a great deal too much. 



The writer ha'd the pleasure of paying this gentleman 

 a visit when in Scotland last autumn, and saw his apiary, 

 also some remanets of the store of wonderful supers he 

 took from his hives last summer — specimens indeed of 

 good bee-keeping, and of the golden maxim worthy of all 

 imitation, "Keep your stocks strong." 



§ XVI. THE LANARKSHIRE HIVE. 



In outward form this hive is much like the first 

 bar-frame hive introduced to English apiarians by Mr. 

 Tegetmeier, who about eighteen years ago was secretary 

 to a now defunct apiarian society the head-quarters of 

 which were just outside I>ondon at Muswell Hill. This 

 gentleman adapted the Stewarton slides to a square bar- 

 frame hive, so that no crown-board was needed, just as 

 is here provided by the ingenious Lanarkshire bee-keeper. 

 One of Mr. Tegetmeier's hives may be seen at • the 

 Bethnal Green Museum of Science and Art. From 

 some cause it did not come into very general use. 



