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HIVES. 



ly Mr. Biiighaai in 18H7 broufflit out his hive 

 with closed-end frames with a narrow top-bar. 

 and no bottom-bar, but still embodying the 

 chiel features of IInber"s hive of 1789. But the 

 peculiar feature of this hive was that it made 

 use of shallow frames only 5 inches deep, a se- 

 ries of them being lashed together by means 

 of a wire loop and stretcher sticks, said loop 

 drawing on the follower-boards in such a 

 way as to bring tight compression on frames 

 inclosed in manner shown. Seven of these 

 brood frames in the present hive make up a 

 brood-nest, and an entire brood-nest may 

 consist of one or two sets of frames. The 

 top-bar is dropped down from the top of the 

 end-bars a bee-space, while the bottom-bars 

 are flush with the bottoms of the end-bais. 

 With a bottom- board having a | in. stiip on 

 each side, the ordinary bee-space is pre- 

 served through the several divisions of the 

 hive. 



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The super is like any ordinary one adapt- 

 ed to comb honey, except that it uses coiled 

 springs to produce the necessary tension. 



Although Mr. Bingham has used this hive 

 for a great many years, and quite success- 

 fully too, no one else seems to have done 

 much with it; but a modification of the 

 hive is shown in the Danzenbaker and the 

 Ileddon, both of which, in some sections, 

 have come to be favorites. 



THE DANZENBAKER HIVE. 



The Danzenbaker hive, with closed-end 

 frames, is one of the very best ; certainly 

 it is slowly working its way into the confi- 

 dence of bee-keepers. It consists of a brood- 

 chamber of the same length and width as the 

 10-f rame Langstroth Dovetailed hive, 1 nit only 



deep enougli to take in a (lei)tii of frame of 7i 

 in. The rabbet, instead of being near the 

 upper edge, is dropped down about midway; 

 or, more strictly speaking, there is a cleat or 

 board nailed on the inside of the ends of the 

 hive, as shown at F F in the accompanying 



diagram of the hive. On this support hang 

 the closed-end brood-frames, pivoted at the 

 center of the end-bars by means of a rivet 

 driven through from the inside, as shown at 

 I in the diagram. Ten of these frames till 

 the hive ; and when they are crowded to- 

 gether with a follower-board on the side, we 



fiave practically a ciouble-walled hive— the 

 ends of the frames with closed uprights 

 forming one wall, and the ends of the hive 

 the second or outer wall ; the follower on 

 one side wall, and the side of the hive the 

 outside or secondary wall. These frames 

 being pivoted in the center, as shown at C, 

 can be reversed, and this feature, while it 

 costs nothing, is something to be desired, ;is 

 it enables us to have all frames tilled solid 

 with comb. 



The bottom of these hives is the same as 

 that shown for the Dovetailed, already de- 

 scribed ; or, to be more exact, the Dovetail- 

 ed hive has appropriated the bottom-board 

 of the Danzenbaker. The super for comb 

 honey takes in the 4x5 plain section, and 

 makes use of the fence-separator system. 

 The sections are supported in section-hold- 

 ers ; indeed, the whole arrangement is the 



