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BEE-FARMING. 



YATES'S ROUND-TOPPED HIVE. 



Mr. Yates, seedsman, of Manchester, has acquired 

 celebrity for his straw-skeps, and many Lancashire bee- 

 keepers, especially those who follow Pettigrew's theory, are 

 almost compelled to purchase their skeps from Messrs. 

 Yates, because no one else can furnish straw hives of the 

 size required. 





YATES S ROUND- TOPPED HIVE. 



This illustration will give our readers a tolerable idea of 

 the shape of the hive, but to look at a hive twenty inches in 

 diameter, and fourteen inches high, both inside measure, is 

 enough to astonish an old-fashioned apiarian. It certainly 

 is an enormous hive, and, best of all, when it comes to be 

 taken off the stand in the autumn, if tolerably well filled 

 with pure honey, it will certainly hold not less than eighty 

 pounds. 



We, however, draw our readers' attention to Yates's 

 hives not so much for their size as for their excellent 

 workmanship ; we believe they are manufactured in Scotland, 

 and we honestly confess we never saw any straw hives so 

 strongly made as these. To show their durability, we had 

 one in use for over four years, and it then seemed as if it 

 would last four more, but if a common skep lasts two 

 years it is thought to have done its duty. 



