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Fig. 5. — Cover removed, showing construction of super, wide frame for the sections, with separating 

 slats nailed on one side, etc. The peculiar construction allows room for 33 sections in one super over 

 the eight-frame hive. 



uation, but the better handle the swarming 

 problem, and — "keep more bees." 



AVith ai^plication to the problem for 

 twenty-three years, Mr. Anthony finally 

 perfected a modification of the Huber 

 "leaf" hive in which he could turn the 

 combs like the leaves of a book from one 

 side to anothei', giving an opportunity to 

 inspect each one thoroughly while at the 

 same time, if occasion demanded, he could 

 remove any comb just as easily as a leaf 

 vaay be taken from the modern loose-leaf 

 ledger. And he went still further, in that 

 he adopted a constiiiction that made it 

 possible for him to remove the combs at 

 will, either from the bottom of the brood- 

 chamber or from the top in the regular 

 way. 



My first impression of his apiary of 

 about one hundred colonies was that the 

 hives had l)een located on insecure founda- 

 tions, and that a strong wind had toppled 

 most of them half over, where they re- 

 mained, neither standing up nor lying down. 

 On coming nearer the yard I made up my 

 mind that Mr. Anthony had built his hives 

 with steep floors, on the old theory that 

 the moth-worms, however much against 

 their will, if they fell off the combs would 

 be unceremoniously rolled downhill out of 

 the hive entrance. However, I discovered 

 that some of the entrances (most of them 

 in fact) were at the "top of the hill" rather 

 than at the bottom. See Fig. 1, wliich shows 

 a corner of the yard. Notice that the en- 



trance of the hive at the extreme right is 

 at the "bottom of the hill," while in case 

 of the rest of the hives the bottom-board 

 slants the other way, so that the entrances 

 are at the top. 



Take the hive in the foreground of Fig. 

 1 for example. Suppose one stood at the 

 left of this hive and looked squarely at the 

 end of it. He would manifestly ob- 

 serve that the end of the brood-chamber 

 is a parallelogram, and that the corners 

 are not right angles, as in case of the or- 

 dinary hive. Moreover, the brood-chamber 

 case is made up of two halves, the ends of 

 Avhich are triangles as shown, instead of 

 rectangles. Now, when Mr. Anthony de- 

 sires to look over his brood-chamber, per- 

 haps to find the queen, he uses a clamp 

 somewhat similar in principle to the de- 

 vice described in Gleanings by F. H. 

 Cyrenius, page 774, July 15, 1905. He 

 quickly adjusts this clamp and tips the 

 whole hive over without removing the cover 

 or the super, and without disturbing the 

 upper part of the hive at all. With the 

 hive tipped over in this position resting 

 on the clamp, it is the work of b''.t a mo- 

 ment to remove the lower part of the 

 brood-chamber case, to which the floor is 

 attached, and lay it to one side as in Fig. 

 2. Then, without prying any thing loose, 

 the combs beginning at one side may be 

 swung over, one by one, so that both 

 sides are exposed. While tlus work is 

 being done, there is no danger of killing 



