HIVES FOR BEE-KEEPERS. 
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have been consulted in preference to any question of 
cost. The hive here illustrated (Fig. 17), and made 
by Mr. Holland, closely resembles the one devised and 
generally used by the Author, and so has his name 
affixed to it, although it differs considerably from an 
earlier pattern bearing the same designation. It stands 
on splayed legs giving it a firm base and a height suit- 
Fig. 18.— Cheshire Hive during Honey Harvf..st. Section from Side to 
Side (Scale, i’.,). 
c, Comb ; g, s', Separators ; fn,fn. Foundation ; other Letters as before. 
able to the operator. These legs are painted on the end 
grain several times, at intervals, and then have zinc 
plates fixed upon them, so that rotting is for many years 
quite prevented. The sides [hs, /is, Figs. 18 and 19) 
are double all round, with an interspace of lin., packed 
firmly with cork-dust, which the writer’s experiments 
(see “Wintering”) have proved to give fourteen times 
