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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
one upon another, would have been noticed in this in- 
troductory sketch before the Langstroth, since it is said 
to have been invented about 1819, at Stewart Town,* 
Ayrshire, by Robert Kerr, who himself adopted the 
octagonal form from Mewe’s hive, dating as far back 
as 1652, had it not been improved and modified 
within the last twenty years by “ Renfrewshire Bee- 
keeper,’"’ so that it really now contains an adapta- 
tion of the Langstroth frame. The lower body, or 
Fig. 12.— Stewarton Hive (Scale, jW), 
S, S, Slides ; A, A', Supers ; B, B', Body Boxes ; H, Handle ; W, Window ; 
D, Door ; E, Entrance. 
breeding and wintering, boxes (B, B'), are yin. deep 
and I4in. in internal diameter, and have eight bars, 
the six in the centre i^in. broad, and the two outside 
ones (where honey is stored) ijin. Between these 
run slides {s, s, Fig. 12), of which the sectional 
view is given in Fig. 13. By the removal of these, 
* See “ The Stewarton, the Hive of the Busy Man,” by Rev. Dr. E. 
Bartrum, M.A. 
