FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



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CHAXGES IX HIVES. 



I have already changed five times, having begun in 

 18(31 with a full-sized sugar-barrell, changing the next 

 3ear to Quinby box-hives, then to a movable-frame hive 

 made by J. F. Lester, and afterward when J. A'ander- 

 vort, the foundation-mill man. came and lived perhaps a 



vear in ]\Iarengo, I bous^ht out his stock of hiv 



I sup- 



Fii 



-Home from the Out-Apiary. 



posed they were the exact Langstroth pattern, but they 

 had frames 18 x 9 inches, not different enough to make 

 any appreciable dift'erence in results, but different enough 

 so that they were not standard, and after I had a few thou- 

 sands of them on hand and wanted to change to the 

 regular Langstroth size, the trouble I had would be hard 

 to describe. I still have some of them, but not in regular 

 use. These hives were 10-frame, and in course of time 

 I cut them down and made them 8-frame. Then I 

 changed to the 8-frame dovetailed hive, and I don't know 

 what the next change will be. 



