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and other devices, all of which failed utterly, through 

 the bees immediately stopping every opening with 

 propolis. 



Brace-Combs, Burr-Combs, 



or comb-projections and attachments such as are found 

 between frame ends or under the sections, have always 

 been the result of the old-fashioned crowding plan which 

 the majority of bee-keepers still adhere to when working 

 for comb-honey. But once and for all the apiarist should 

 disabuse himself of this prejudice against Simmins' new 

 system. Comb-honey is finished off just as well, or even 

 better, and moreover in larger quantities, where so much 

 space is allowed below the stock, and between all the 

 rims of the non-contact chambers. And lastly, but not 

 by any means the least desirable feature, is the fact, so 

 strongly pointed out by users of this hive of advanced 

 construction, that everything is cleaner and so much more 

 easily manipulated than is the case with common hives. 



With the space below the stock hive proper, never being 

 completely filled or finished off, the bees are not induced 

 to start inconvenient comb attachments at any part of 

 the hive. 



Qoing Backwards. 



A prominent hive manufacturer endeavoured to show 

 me how to avoid attachments between the several tiers ; 

 another how to stop the bee-spaces between the several 

 chambers, and yet have them slide as usual. But these 

 friends have not yet realised that I have no need of such 

 retrograde " attachments," that the hive itself is better 

 without them ; and the progressive bee-master of the 

 future will have none of them. The hanging-chamber 

 hive with an unfettered bee-space between all rims, and a 

 double bee-space between the lower chamber and the 



