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with the utmost facility be compressed as seasonal 
exigencies may demand. Indeed, it appears to me 
that, by the addition of a sunk half bee-space in 
the floor-board of the Carr-Stewarton, and half bee- 
space above and below the frames of its body-boxes 
and supers, or section-boxes, a very fair imitation of 
Fig. 15 .— Outer Casing for Thin Hives. 
c, Lower Cover ; I, Lift ; r, Roof. 
the Heddon hive (see “ Heddon Hive ”) is obtained 
at once. 
As the correct management of these tiering, or 
storifying, hives necessitates, during the honey season, 
repeated changes, not only in the number, but in the 
order, of the several storeys, these are made light and 
handy ; but, on this account, they are not able to 
