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The objections which I have found in the use of such hives 

 are the fact that so few use them, and dang-er of killing bees 

 in rapid handling. They can be manipulated with rapidity if 

 we care not how many bees we crush. It hurts me to kill a 

 bee, and so I find the Langstroth style more quickly manipu- 

 lated. Mr. Snow, too, who was the first to make the above 

 style of hive, has discarded it in favor of the Langstroth. His 

 objection to the above, is the fact that the various combs are 

 not sure to be so built as to be interchangeable. Yet that such 

 apiarists as those above named prefer these Huber hives, after 

 long use of the other style, is certainly not without significance. 



OBSERVATORY HIVE. 



To study bees while they are at work, requires a hive so 

 constructed that we can look in upon all the bees of the hive 



Fig. 102. 



Observatory Hive.— Original. 



at pleasure. For this purpose I have used a small Langstroth 

 hive (Fig. 102) containing one frame. Glass is used each side 

 of the frame, and this is shaded by doors hung on hinges. We 

 are able to look at the bees or make all dark inside at pleasure. 

 To prevent the hive from becoming too crowded, we must every 

 twenty-three or twenty-four days shake the bees from the 



