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chapman’s HANDY-BOOK. 
Further increase will no longer be an object with him, 
^What he will then desire is to get as much honey as 
possible from his existing stock. How this is to be done I 
purpose to tell you when I speak of bee produce. I forgot 
to mention above that there is one state of the weather 
which often induces a swarm to rise later in the afternoon 
than two o’clock. AVlien it has been raining in the 
morning, and for several days belore, and then the sun 
bursts out, and a hot sultry evening succeeds ; on such an 
evening as this, a swarm which has been some days baulked 
by the weather will often rise as late as four o clock: have 
your eyes well open then, as indeed you always should 
amongst your bees, either to do something for them, or to 
learn something from them. 
How to take Honey from a Hive. 
The different hives are thus described by Mr. Wood as 
chiefly of three sorts, the Nadir, Collateral, and Super. 
The Nadir hives are those where the additional hive is 
placed under the original; the Collateral, those where, as 
the name implies, the hives are placed side by side. Of 
these, the Collateral are much to be preferred, as in the 
Nadir hives the bees are exposed to many inconveniences, 
among which may be reckoned the labour of mounting up 
through two hives, to deposit the honey or pollen which 
they have brought home, a task which to an already 
wearied and heavily laden bee would be an addition to its 
labours. Moreover, the brood combs are -dpt to be dis¬ 
tributed unequally, so that the bee-master is never sure of 
getting’ a hive full of pure honeycomb, as he can in the 
collateral hiving. Super-hiving is where the additional 
hive or box is placed above the mother hive. To this 
nearly the same objections apply as to the nadir system. 
Mr. Cotton goes on to say that the bees glory in making 
honey, while they rob the flowers, they give full payment 
for what they take. They fertilise the yet half formed 
seeds, and help on the multiplication of those flowers from 
which they get their greatest supply. 
To give an instance: Every one who keeps bees near 
