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GLEANINGS IN HKK CULTUKK. 



MayI 



In 1.S51 Lorenzo Lorraine Lang- 

 strnth invented the movable hang- 

 ing frame with a bee-space on all 

 sides in combination with a mova- 

 ble roof, also having a bee-space on 

 the under side. The United States 

 Patent Office allowed him a broad 

 sweeping patent covering all his 

 rights in the clearest manner; yet 

 all sorts of infringers arose to claim 

 his great invention as theirs. Had 

 Langstroth lived now, and been 

 able to hire good lawyers, he would 

 have been in a position to levy 

 heavy fines for infringements. As 

 it was, he was robbed of the fruits 

 of his invention by persons of 

 unscrupulous tendencies. Others 

 have tried to claim for themselves 

 or their friends the honors of this 

 great invention which rendered the 

 construction of a scientific hive an 

 easy matter. Even Langstroth was 

 himself persuaded that Dr. Dzierzon 

 had discovered the same inveotion. 



Dzierzon himself made no claim 

 to such a thing; in fact, he prided 

 himself on his side - opening bar 

 hives. He cut his combs with a 

 long knife, and then pulled them 

 out with tongs. Americans would 

 have no patience with such a plan. 

 To the day of his death he objected 

 to hives with movable roofs as unsanitary 

 or unhygienic. Berlepsch adopted part of 

 the Langstroth idea by using frames in- 

 stead of bars: but the tongs are very necessa- 

 ry, even then, in the Berlepsch system. 

 Any one interested in this subject, by study- 

 ing Dzierzon's and Berlepsch's books, will 

 soon perceive that neither has the slightest 

 claim to the hive having hanging movable 



prokopovitsch's hive, early part ok the 19Tn 



CENTURY. 



Nederland, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden. 

 Australia, South Africa, all concede Lang 

 stroth as the man who solved the hive prob- 

 lem for them. This is due in no small de- 

 gree to the late Charles Dadant, who at long 

 range fought Langstroth's battles in Europe. 

 Having right on his side he succeeded in 

 convincing his opponents that Langstroth 

 was the man who solved the hive problem 

 for all mankind. 



MAKING UP WINTER LOSSES. 



A Review of Some of the Successful Plans 

 for Making Increase. 



BY E. D. TOWNSEND. 



debeavoy's hive. 



frames with a bee-space and movable roof. 

 In addition, one ought to read Langstroth's 

 book, which shows his invention was no ac- 

 cident. On the contrary, he left his German 

 rivals far in the rear in every respect. Eng- 

 land, France, Russia, Italy, Spain, Belgium, 



[Our correspondent assumes that the reader has a 

 general understanding of both the Somerford and the 

 Alexander plans for making increase, and for this rea- 

 son he does not go into details in describing them. 

 Any one who dt sires fuller particulars, however, may 

 And both the Somerford and the Alexander plans 

 in the 1908 edition of the A B C and X Y Z of Bee Cul- 

 ture.— Ed.] 



Comb-honey producers may be striving to 

 keep down increase, but extracted-honey 

 men are more interested in plans for making 

 up winter losses; for if their bees are handled 

 as they should be there will not be enough 

 natural swarms to make up for the loss 

 through the year. Each season, therefore, 

 there will be some artificially made swarms, 

 and the purpose of this article is to show 

 how to do this to the best advantage. 



There is a rule to be observed in the mak- 

 ing of artificial Increase that is very impor- 

 tant. The brood should be left undisturbed 

 for the first eight days after being made 



