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under another similar hive, raising it so that the original 

 combs were then extended permanently to within the 

 usual distance of the floor ; thus securing additional 

 breeding space in the enlarged combs. No open space 

 was left, and the enlarged combs remained until the stock, 

 was finally broken up. . 



Here was no attempt at prevention, just as there was 

 none in the case of the " Nadir," which was a distinct 

 frameless chamber placed under the original stock, whose 

 combs could not be extended because of an adapting 

 board between the two. This " Nadir " was always given 

 as a surplus chamber, wherein the bees built solid combs 

 of newly gathered honey. Thus in both cases the recep- 

 tacles were filled with comb for the respective purposes, 

 unlike the Author's non-swarming chamber, which is never 

 allowed to become crowded with combs. 



This is the first time the long-vexed question of pre- 

 vention has been reduced to systematic management ; but, 

 as usual with anything new, there are not wanting those 

 who claim that there is nothing original in it. The editor 

 of the British Bee Journal endeavoured to prove that it had 

 been in use many years since, and that the Stewarton 

 hive was worked upon the same principle ; and while 

 attempting to show how to produce comb honey without 

 swarming, I find he could not tell how to work entirely for 

 that article with any given colony ; but only that a limited 

 quantity could be obtained while at the same time using 

 many combs under the sections as and for extracted 

 honey — a most unsatisfactory process, by which few 

 finished sections can be obtained unless my plan of filling 

 the same with worked-out comb is adopted. 



Bee-keepers generally have saved over unfinished combs 

 in sections from year to year, and these were found to 

 give a good start to the bees, but nothing was done to 



