i66 THE HONEY-BEE. 



to appreciate this form of hive, and a strong swarm 

 will often fill the two lower boxes with comb in ten 

 days. To get the full advantage, however, of this 

 system, it is best to put a swarm into each of the 

 lower compartments, or in the first and third, if two 

 colonies of bees cannot be procured on the same 

 day. If they be kept asunder a few days by slides 

 with perforations, to let their odours commingle, 

 they may be allowed to join their forces, and the 

 queens will settle the sovereignty by a battle, ending 

 in the death of the weaker. When the stock-boxes 

 have become well filled with bees, admission may be 

 given to the honey-box, and, in a good season, splendid 

 combs of honey may be secured in this way. We 

 have seen supers of great weight and beauty taken 

 from the Stewarton hive. Its merits have been well 

 described from time to time in The Journal of 

 Horticulture and The Bee Journal, by a "A Renfrew- 

 shire Bee-keeper." 



Mr. C. W. Smith designed a modification of the 

 above hives which he named the Carr-Stewarton. In 

 it the square form is substituted for the octagonal, 

 so as to secure the interchangeability of all combs 

 — an important matter in the practical affairs of 

 an apiary. 



The chief points of recommendation in the Stew- 

 arton hive seem to be, its excellence as winter 

 quarters for its inhabitants, and the readiness with 

 which large quantities of super-honey are stored 

 in it. 



In order that some of the wonders of bee-work 

 may be seen in the process of performance, various 

 arrangements have been made, constituting what are 



