156 MODERN BEEHIVES. [Ch. lir. 



The stock hive we are now describing measures 

 sixteen inches and three-quarters from front to rear, 

 and seventeen and a quarter from side to side, within ; 

 the height is nine inches and a half, and it contains 

 eleven frames and one division board or dummy. Each 

 of the frames is fitted with a false bar, which is intended 

 to be under the bar proper : by taking a frame and 

 pressing this bar out, an arrangement will be found for 

 enclosing and holding tightly fixed the impressed sheets of 

 wax for guides. The ends of the frames rest in the front 

 and back of the hive ; the top edges of the latter being 

 deeply grooved along their centres to reduce the bearing 

 surfaces, so that there may be less danger of crushing a 

 bee when the frames are placed in position. These 'are 

 now kept apart, and the spaces between are closed by 

 wooden slides as in the octagon Stewarton hive ; thus the 

 advantages claimed by Scotch apiarians are here to be 

 found in a square bar-frame hive. The sides and lower 

 ends of the frames have projections which touch and 

 keep each other steady, so that the combs are not so 

 liable to be pressed together. 



The super is four inches deep and equal in diameter 

 to the stock hive, and is furnished, like it, with false 

 bars, which have slits for inserting those infallible guides, 

 the impressed waxen sheets. These are surmounted 

 with another row of movable bars with the Stewarton 

 slides between as before explained. 



The back of the hive has a circular revolving disc of 



