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THE BEL-JIIVES. 



section. Radouan, iu 1821, instead of a perforated ceiling, 

 used triangular bars, to which the bees attached theii' combs. 

 Chas. Soria, in 1845, used these bars at the bottom of each 

 stoiy as well as at the top, with bee space between, so that 

 they could be removed, exchanged, or reversed, without crush- 

 ing any bees, or damaging a single cell (fig. 56). 



279. Other Apiarists divided their hives vertically, con- 

 formably with the shape of the combs of the bees, which hang 

 vertically. If we are correctly informed, it was Jonas de 

 Gelieu who maugurated this style (fig. 57). He made his 



Fig. 56. 



EKE OF CHAS. SORIA. 



(From Hamet.) 



Fig. .5 7. 



DIVIDING HIVE OF JONAt 

 DE GELIEU. 



(From Hamet.) 



hive divisible mto only two parts. Oettl, towards the middle 

 of the nineteenth century, made a straw hive divided into 

 three vertical parts. The main advantage of these hives re- 

 sides in the facility of dividing them for artificial swarming. 

 But as this method of making artificial swarms is defective, 

 as will be shown further (470), and as all these con- 

 trivances did not allow a close study of the habits of the bee, 

 or pennit the needed manipulations, it became necessaiy to 

 invent a hive whose eveiy comb, and eveiy part, the Apiarist 

 could promptly and easily control; a hive which, to employ 

 the forcible expression of Mr. Hamet, could ''sc demonter 

 comme nn jcu dc marionettes'" ; (be taken to pieces like a 

 puppet-show). 



