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is not supposed so much to care for his hives as a source 

 of amusement ; his object in bee-keeping is simply the 

 profit it may bring. For those of our readers who wish 

 to have united the facility of observing the bees with that 

 of the plentiful production of honey, we would especially 

 recommend the improved cottager's hive, described at 

 page 112. If inclined to go to a little further expense, the 

 hives described at pages 113, 120, 139, and 143, all afford 

 constant opportunity for inspection of the bees, and allow 

 of their working freely in the most natural manner. The 

 Stewarton hive (page 146) is also a favourite with those 

 who give the preference to honey stored in boxes, 

 although the opportunities for observation are not so 

 great as with some others. 



Renfrewshire Bee-Keeper's Hints on Supering and 

 Prevention of Swarming. 



The mention again of the Stewarton hive affords us an 

 opportunity of which we avail ourselves to put before our 

 readers an extract from a private letter received whilst the 

 foregoing pages are in type, from that successful and ac- 

 complished apiarian already alluded to, "The Renfrewshire 

 Bee-keeper,"which seems to us to contain a useful hint or 

 two as regards putting on supers and the prevention of 

 swarming, which, although practised with our friend's^^- 

 vourite hive, can be advantageously adopted with other hives. 

 He says, " In working Stewarton colonies, I am seldom 

 troubled with swarms, the secret being, in giving super 



