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This is a PDF Downloadable File: No. 77 in the Beekeeping in a Nutshell series. Although little known today, the Stewarton Hive has played a significant part in the development of modem beekeeping. Introduced in Ayrshire in 1819, it was still in regular use at least as late as the 1950s. The most notable feature was the octagonal construction while…