MUNABLE-FKAME iliVES. 



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with the Laiigstroth hive, now recognize that success is prin- 

 cipally due to the manipulations that it permits. 



296. Xav, if the student will but refer to a former edition 



Fig. 62. 



THE GRAVENHORST HIVE. 



(From the "lUusfrierte Bienenzeitung.") 



Fig. 63. 



OLD STANDARD LAXGSTROTH FRAME. 



of this very book (1859), the first words of it will show hini 

 the progress accomplished since then: 



"Practical bee-keeping in this country is in a very depressed 

 ponditinn, lacing entirely neglected by the mass of those most 



