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Bee-keepers generally have saved unfinished combs over from 

 year to year, and these were found to give a good start to the 

 bees, but nothing was done to institute the systematic production 

 of such new white combs for all sections before being placed on 

 the hive until the present system was inaugurated. 



All that has ever been given as to the manipulation of the 

 Stewarton Hive relates chiefly to the insertion of several swarms 

 into the set of boxes. This does not look like prevention, and 

 moreover, whether with swarms or established stocks the principle 

 did not consist in keeping the same or any empty chamber always 

 below the brood nest. In hives 3 feet long it is claimed that in 

 America the plan was tried twenty years since. The bees in this 

 case working from back to front all on the same level. Here the 

 combs were removed as completed at the front. 



Fig. I. 



Fig. 2, 



Just here the Reader will not fail to see the difference — a con- 

 trast decidedly in favour of my own plan, which is this : The 

 surplus is worked and continually removed from above, while no 

 attention is needed below or in front of the brood combs ; as in 

 the first place no combs are there permitted to become completed, 

 and the same frames remain in the same place all the season, because 

 with careful attention above little or no comb is built in them, as 

 my own experience has shown. 



