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we find indications of this pest is to open the hive, take out 

 the frames till we find the interloper ; cut out all the comb in* 

 fected, return the comb to the hive, and the work is done. But 

 we need not enlarge our remarks on this hive ; any intelligent 

 person can see at once the advantages of a perfect control of 

 the combs. There are other hives with movable frames, but 

 they are all modifications of Langstroth ; to him we believe be- 

 longs the invention of the movable comb hive, although about 

 the same time a Prussian Clergyman of the name of Dzierzon 

 invented a movable comb hive, yet not as simple as Lang- 

 stroth's, neither had any knowledge of the other. To show 

 the estimation in which Dzierzon's system is held in Germa- 

 ny, we give an extract from the Leipzig Illustrated Almanac. 

 Eeport on Agriculture, 1846 : 



" Bee culture is no longer regarded as of any importance in 

 rural economy." 



From the same, 1853 : 



" Since Dzierzon's system has been made known, an entire 

 revolution in bee culture has been produced ; a new era has 

 been created for it, and bee keepers are turning their attention 

 to it with renewed zeal." 



Many persons will be surprised to hear us talk of control- 

 ling and handling bees, but to us they possess no terror ; by 

 Langstroth's method they seem to lose all desire to sting. It is 

 simply this. When you wish to perform any operation on bees, 

 open your hive, (his hive opens at the top,) and sprinkle them 

 with water made very sweet, with sugar, or honey ; as the bee 

 can never resist the inclination to take anything sweet, any 

 more than the drinker can his dram, they forget their anger 

 and fill themselves with sweets, and this puts them in so com- 

 fortable a frame of mind, that they allow themsemselves to be 

 handled without resenting it, if you do not hurt them. Bee 

 keepers have always known that bees were not inclined to 

 sting when swarming, but no one knew why ! Langstroth dis- 

 covered that it is because the bees have taken in a supply of 

 honey to commence work in the now home. Every one knowa 

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