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hive? He tried this plan with fear 

 and trembling. Failure had been 

 his lot so many times, that he had 

 hard!}' dared to hope for success 

 with this his new fancy. As we all 

 know, this experiment did suc- 

 ceed, and the result was that in 

 1852, he introduced the frame to 

 the public, and so well was 

 his work matured, that the same 

 style of frame he then devised, is 

 now used more largely than any 

 other, in the exact form he first 

 devised it, and by the ablest api- 

 arists in the country. It will be 

 needless to enter into the many 

 discouragements and great oppo- 

 sition, with which he met in his en- 

 deavor to bring his frame into 

 general use. It has been intro- 

 duced, and introduced fully and 

 completely ; and such are its merits, 

 that the Langstroth frame is now 

 used wherever bees are kept. 



B}'^ the term Langstroth frame, 

 I do not mean simply the original 

 frame he devised, and which he 

 still advises ; but do mean that all 

 sectional movable hanging frames, 

 b}-^ whatever name they ma}' be 

 known, are Langstroth frames. 



It was the hanging, sectional, 

 movable frame principle, of which 

 he was the inventor, and the so 

 called "Gallup," "American," "A- 

 dair" or "•Bingham" frames (or in 

 fact all hanging movable frames) 

 are Langstroth frames. 



As an inventor the name of L. L. 

 Langstroth will live as long as 

 bees are kept, and generations yet 

 unborn will revere his memor3^ 

 By means of his powers of in- 

 vention, and through his instru- 



mentality in putting that invention 

 before the public, the apiarist 

 of to-day, with a few days' prac- 

 tice only, is enabled to see and 

 observe for himself, all those mys- 

 teries of which Virgil has so beauti- 

 full}' sung, and which the various 

 writers of the past were only en- 

 abled to find out, as was Huber, 

 by long years of patient labor, such 

 were the difficulties that then sur- 

 rounded them. With the introduc- 

 tion of the frame a new era began, 

 and through its means bee-culture 

 has been raised from a business of 

 insignificance, to one that is now 

 barely second to any other. With 

 the old box-hive, it was possible 

 to gain twenty-five pounds of sur- 

 plus from a single colony in a sea- 

 son. When we compare this with 

 the average of one hundred and 

 fifty pounds per colony in many 

 large apiaries, and with the one 

 thousand pounds from a single col- 

 on}' obtained by B. F. Carrol, we 

 may well be led to assert that Rev. 

 L. L. Langstroth is a great public 

 benefactor. 



Mr. Langstroth was not only suc- 

 cessful as an inventor, but also as 

 an author. His treatise on apicul- 

 ture, "the Hive and the Honey 

 bee," stands at the head of all writ- 

 ten works on the subject, and has 

 fairly earned the high distinction 

 given it, of "the classic of apicul- 

 ture." 



Mr Langstroth is now an old and 

 feeble man. His health was im- 

 paired in early j-outh by too close 

 attention to his studies, and now 

 he is able to do but little for 

 himself. For a few months past, 



