36 COLLATERAL HIVES. 
cified dimensions of a box, the extra space must be thrown to its 
sides. At the back of each box a pane of glass should be fixed in a 
small rabbet, which may be covered with a half-inch door, hung with 
wire hinges, and fastened by a button. This rabbet should be as 
shallow as possible, or the bees will be apt to occupy it with a thin 
comb.” After adjusting the bars a top is fitted to the hive with 
auger holes, or a hole cut three or four inches square, to admit the 
bees into a super if desired; the top is secured by screws, so as to be 
removed at pleasure. 
COLLATERAL HIVES. 
Collateral Hives have never been used to any great extent in this 
country. Mr. Nutt, a resident of England, (I think,) and a gentleman 
that has paid a good deal of attention to bee-keeping, is very much in 
favor of this system. But Dr. Bevan, Mr. Dunbar, and others, do not 
consider it the best hive in use by any means. 
Jones’ Multiplying and Dividing Hive is a little similar to this hive 
of Mr. Nutt’s in its construction, though not like it, as Mr. Nutt’s hive 
has no chamber for small boxes, while Jones’ has. The adjoining 
sides are different also; those of Mr. Nutt’s are composed of half-inch 
boards, with two or three horizontal openings for communications, 
while those of Jones’ hive are composed of cross-bars, some two inches 
wide, and about the same distance apart, affording a freer communi- 
cation between the boxes. A large number of Jones’ hives were dis- 
posed of in the State of Ohio, some five years since, and many bee- 
keepers lost nearly every family of bees they put into them. They 
followed the directions given by the agent, and divided their stock 
several times during the season, and before the next spring nearly 
every bee was dead. By dividing so often, the families were small and 
weak, and the moths destroyed most of them before winter, and the 
remainder generally died with hunger during winter. 
The hives of Mr. Nutt are not intended for increasing or multiply- 
ing the stocks, but to obtain honey. This I do not consider a very 
profitable way of managing bees, for I believe there is as much to be 
realized from the yicrease of families, as there is from the honey they 
produce, though there are persons so situated that they prefer not to in- 
