COLLATERAL HIVES. 37 
crease their number of hives, but keep acolony or two, just for the plea- 
sure of it, and obtain what honey they consume in their own families. 
es l 
Sail. 
The annexed cut is a view of the boxes joined together on the stand, 
as used generally; they are held together at the rear by butts, and in 
front by a hook and staple made of wire. The lower cut represents a 
frame-work for the hives to stand upon, instead of a board. 
The boxes are usually ten or eleven inches square in the clear, and 
eight or nine inches high, with a pane of glass in each, covered by a 
door, hinged and buttoned, as seen in the engraving. 
One of the boxes is kept as the permanent residence of the family, 
and is not disturbed. The other is removed as often as filled, and an 
empty one set in the place of it. 
Dr, Bevan says, in the first place, the honey obtained by this sys- 
tem is not as pure as that produced by supering; and, secondly, that 
the harvest of honey they afford is by no means so abundant. 
My hive is a combination of the collateral and storifying, or super- 
ing, united, and combines all the advantages of both these systems, 
