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advantage of the first law, already introduced, since, 
had the bees built their comb to the bottom and sides 
of it, instead of leaving passage-way, his arrangement 
would have utterly failed, as the two contiguous faces 
of adjacent combs would have been cut off from all 
the rest ; but, unlike the more perfect devices of 
Dzierzon and Langstroth, it derived nothing from 
the fact that spaces (the bee-space) iin., or rather 
more, in least diameter, are allowed to remain open, 
leaving the frames with combs, honey, brood, and 
th CO Is 
Fig. 11.— Section of Langstroth’s Original Hive and Frame (Scale, ,V)- 
CO, Cover ; bb, Bottom Board ; and e, Entrance of Hive ; bs, bs, Bee-space ; 
tb, Top Bar ; and s, s, Sides of Frames. 
adherent bees, ever free for examination, removal, 
passage from stock to stock, or utilisation in fresh 
and previously impracticable ways ; so that the new 
hives made, even in the hands of their inventors, a 
new system of apiculture, which has been developing 
and advancing to the present hour. 
The Stewarton (Fig. 12), still much esteemed in 
Scotland, while it is not without defenders amongst 
advanced bee-keepers south of the Cheviots, and 
which consists of octagonal boxes, that may be tiered 
