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The kind most used consists of a box, in which hang- the 

 frames which hold the combs. The adjacent frames are so far 

 separated that the combs, which just fill them, shall be the 

 proper distance apart. In the other kind, the ends of . the 

 frames are wider than the comb, and when in position are 

 close together, and of themselves form two sides of a box. 

 When in use these frames are surrounded bj a second box, 

 without a bottom, which, with them, rests on a bottom-board'. 

 Each of these kinds is represented by various forms, sizes, 

 Fig. 83. 



Munn's Improved Eive, after Munn. 



etc., where the details are varied to suit the apiarist's notion. 

 Yet, I believe that all hives in present use, worthy of recom- 

 mendation, fall within one or the other of the above-named 

 types. 



EARLY FRAME HIVES. 

 In 1843, Mr. Augustus Munn, of England, invented a mov- 

 able-comb hive (Fig. 82), which I need hardly say was not the 

 Langstroth hive, nor a practical one. In 1851 this hive (Fig. 83) 



