CHAPTER III. 
HIVES FOB BEE-KEEPERS. 
Introduction — Huher — Forms of Comb: Laws Regu- 
lating its Position — Cutting Combs — Comb Irregu- 
larities — Interspace — Stature of Bees — Laws of 
Bee-space — Huber's Observatory and Book Hives — 
Fixing Combs — Huber' s Artificial Swar?ning — Plan 
for Watching Growth of Comb — Dzierzon's and 
Langstroth's Inventions- — The Superiority of Lang- 
stroth's Hive — The Stewarton — Storifying Hives 
— The Carr-Stewarton — Cheshire Makeshift — 
Standard Frame- — Utility of Makeshift, in Queen 
Raising) as a Twin Hive and in Preventing Swarm- 
ing- — Cheshire Hive, Loose Hinges, Metal Ends — 
Cowan, Eclectic, Sandrmgham, Combination, Giotto, 
and Heddon Hives — The Principle of Inversion. 
The necessities of bee-keeping as an art, together 
with the desire to investigate the methods of the little 
comb-builder, and to fathom the mysteries of the 
economy of her home, have, for the more than twenty 
centuries elapsing since the time of Aristotle himself, 
stimulated the inventive faculties of men towards the 
production of a hive which should permit of handling 
and scrutiny in all its parts, without involving any 
