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would develop into grubs and finally mature as worker bees. 

 The adult bees would deposit in some of these cells the pollen, 

 the very thing which the fruit growers want transmitted from 

 tree to tree or blossom to blossom. There would also be a cer- 

 tain amount of honey stored in some of these cells. It would 

 be in this part of the hive that the colony would pass its winter. 

 The discovery and invention of these frames were made by the 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, whose name marks an epoch beginning 

 about 1850, in the advancement and progress of apiculture. 

 Langstroth is furthermore said to be the father of modern bee 

 keeping. Without his discovery, it probably would not have 

 been possible to have made bee keeping commercial. 



