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was improved (?). Well does Neighbour say in his valu- 

 able hand-book, " This invention was of no avail to apiarists." 

 M. DeBeauvoys, of France, in 1847, and Schmidt, of Ger- 

 many, in 18S1, invented movable-comb hives. The frames 

 were tight-fitting', and, of course, not practical. Dzierzon 

 adopted the bar hive in 1838. In this hive each comb had to 

 be cut loose as it was removed. It is strange that Mr. Cheshire 

 speaks of Dzierzon's hive in connection with the Langstroth. 

 It was a different type of hive entirely. 



THB LANGSTROTH HIVB. 



In 18S1 our own L,angstroth, without any knowledge of 

 what foreign apiarian inventors had done, save what he could 

 find in Huber, and edition 1838 of Bevan, invented the hive 

 (Fig. 84) now in common use among the advanced apiarists o) 



Fig. 84. 



Two-story Langstroth Sive, — From A. I. Root Co. 



America. It is this hive, the greatest apiarian iuvcTi<,ioi? e-zw 

 made, that has placed American apiculture in advance ot that 

 of all other countries. What practical bee-keeper of America 

 could agree with H. Hamet, edition 1861, p. 166, who, in speak- 

 ing of the DeBeauvoys' hive, says that the improved hives 

 were without value except to the amateur, and inferior for 

 practical purposes ? Our apiarists not native to our shores, 

 like the late Adam Grimm, Mr. C. F. Muth and Mr. Charles 

 Dadant, always conceded that Mr. Langstroth was the inven- 



