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returned to the hive. Any of the combs, when filled with 

 honey, can be taken away and an empty bar-frame ex- 

 changed at any time for the fuU one. The " bar-hive " of 

 Taylor, and the " leaf-hive " of Huber, must give way to 

 Major Munn's invention. Thus much for "bar-frame 

 hive." I can only mention that the common bar hive or 

 Grecian hive, consisted merely of sticks at the top, to per- 

 mit the removal of the honey comb, but the sides of the 

 combs were always fastened to the sides of the hive, and 

 there was the necessity of keeping the sides free, by pas- 

 sing a blunt knife down each of the combs to move them. 

 Mr. Gelding, of Hunten, and Dr. Dunbar had much 

 improved these hives and bars, and you will find a long 

 account of the distance these bars were to be put apart, 

 and how the bees were requested to build their combs to 

 the exact dimensions, until the apiarians began to quarrel 

 as to the distances of the centres of these bars being placed 

 either one inch and five-eights or one 1-inch and 1 -fourth ; 

 but Mr. Golding being a practical bee-master, soon pointed 

 out the necessity of guide combs on each bar, and even 

 then the difiiculty was not removed, as the disposition of 

 the bees is to construct brood combs of one uniform thick- 

 ness, while the stores for the honey being always at the 

 top, the combs were elongated to two or three inches. 

 Hence all the difficulty of adjusting the distances, except by 

 having, as I originally constructed my hexagonal frames, 

 on a bar, sliding laterally in the rim of the outer case or 

 box. You see before you one of the hives that gained the 

 medal at the last Paris Exhibition, and it is much to the 

 credit of Mr. Pettitt that he has striven hard to reduce 

 the cost of these hives, by much simpler work, and cer- 

 tainly the hives cannot be called costly, when £2 will buy 

 the best Dr. Curaming's hexagonal hives, or the Rev 

 Scott's improved Grecian hive, or the bar and frame-hive. 

 The most foolish attempt at an innovation on the bar- 

 frame hive is one called a " compound frame bar." It is a 

 short bar dropping between one of ray frames with the top 



