Bar eramb hives. 



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CHAPTER III. 



Bar Frame Hives. 



THE WOODBUEY — THE ABBOTT COTTAGE — THE CHESHIEB — THE 

 BHEEEINGTON THE ABBOTT THE CAEE STEWAETON. 



In a short treatise like the present one, a history of the bar frame hive 

 •wonld oblige the omission of points of greater practical utility. Suifice 

 it here to say that Langstroth, in America, and Dzierzon, in Germany, 

 about forty years since, contrived hives which give such mastery over the 

 combs, that it became possible to manage bees in a manner previously alto- 

 gether impracticable. 



If a skep be inverted the combs will be found to be arranged in plates 

 of greater or less regularity about lin. thick and IJ inches from centre to 

 centre, but as they are fixed to the 

 roof and partly to the walls of the 

 skep no satisfactory examination 

 of the combs can be made without 

 breaking them from their attach- 

 ments, and so wholly or in part 

 destroying the hive. In the mov- 

 able comb hive the combs may be 

 lifted out and restored to their 

 position without damaging bee 

 handy work in the smallest degree. 

 The plan by which this is managed 

 in all English frame hives can be 



understood by reference to the form introduced by the late and deservedly 

 celebrated Mr. "Woodbury, and which bears his name. The hive is a box 

 (Pig. 11), the lid of which lifts and discloses frames (in this hive there- 

 are ten) which have ears or lugs as in Fig. 12 which rest in rabbets on. 



■WOODBURT BAE PKAME HIVE. 



