156 THE HONEY-BEE. 



speaks of a straw hive with bars, instead of a solid 

 top, invented by Mr. Golding, and named by him 

 "The Village Hive." Even now we consider this 

 variety might well be the cottager's introduction to 

 the more enlightened methods of procedure ; and it 

 would, at the same time, satisfy, in large measure, 

 old-fashioned prejudices in favour of straw for the 

 material of the stock-hive. If the bars are properly 

 furnished with " guides," straight and symmetrical 

 combs may be secured, and the depriving of surplus 

 honey-stores may be easily effected without murdering 

 the workers. 



Previous to this invention, Reaumur, Bonnet, and 

 Huber had suggested, and tried, the use of boxes 

 with movable bar-frames. The last named apiarian 

 is said to have borrowed his idea from the inhabitants 

 of Candia, and he called it the " leaf-hive." In its 

 original form it had eight frames, secured to each 

 other by hooks and eyes, the external ones being 

 glazed, and covered with a shutter. 



The idea of frames removable separately having 

 once been established, various improvements were 

 speedily effected. In 1841 Major Munn, an English- 

 man, obtained a patent in France for his Bar-and- 

 frame Hive, an account of which was published in 

 this country in 1844. In America, the distinguished 

 apiarian Langstroth made known his modifications 

 of Huber's hive, and Dzierzon, in Germany, a little 

 while before, and quite independently, had adopted 

 the same principle of bars with certain special fea- 

 tures, while Von Berlepsch, in 1853, added frames to 

 his countryman's bars. In England the bar-frame 

 system was not really known till its re-introduction 



