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he had been very successful in adopting a peculiar system 
of his own in connection therewith, 
But the pioneer manufacturers of movable frame hives, 
Messrs. Neighbour, Messrs. Lee & Son, and Mr. Abbott, 
of the British Bee Journal, and a few others, were able to 
’ give a great impetus to the demand for improved hives at 
the Bee ‘Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace in 1874, 
and with the Brzt7sh Bee Journal already started, and the 
British Bee-Keepers’ Association inaugurated, modern bee- 
keeping methods rapidly extended. 
Another hive came into notoriety when the late Mr. 
W. B. Carr became sub-editor of the Brztzsh Bee Journal, 
bringing to the same office the Bee-Keeper’s Record, which 
he had edited for many years. 
The W.B.C. Hive 
has perhaps been used as much as any by the many who 
require a cheap article; but its principal feature and 
recommendation was its 53-inch frames for extracting. 
The hive is not so substantial as the Cowan hive, and 
has often been produced too cheaply to be of any real 
value, and in a manner not creditable to certain makers. 
The Abbott Hives 
are generally furnished with frames having wide ends of 
wood as part of the frame-bar for self-adjustment. 
Another feature in Messrs. Abbott’s frames is the double 
groove in the underside: of the bar for inserting the sheet 
of foundation, and then fixing with a slip wedge. This was 
an ingenious idea, and has been adopted by the largest 
manufacturers in the United States. 
This plan of fixing foundation is better than the top bar 
split through and nailing, but for my own use I prefer 
wiring, and waxing the sheet to the top bar, as being 
more simple, strong and expeditious. 
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