176 First Frame Fives. 
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. : 
THE LANGSTROTH HIVE. 
In 1851 our own Langstroth, 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. 59) now in common use among the advanced 
apiarists of America. It is this hive, the greatest apiarian 
invention ever made, that has placed American apiculture 
in advance of that of all other countries. What practical 
bee-keeper of America could agree with H. Hamet, edition 
1861, p. 166, who, in speaking 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 inventor of this hive, 
and always proclaimed its usefulness. Well did the late 
‘Mr. S. Wagner, the honest, fearless, scholarly, and truth- 
loving editor of the early volumes of the American Bee 
Fournal, himself of German origin, say: “When Mr, 
Langstroth took up this subject, he well knew what Huber 
had done, and saw wherein he had failed—failing, possibly, 
only because he aimed at nothing more than constructing 
an observatory hive suitable for his purposes. Mr. Lang- 
stroth’s object was other and higher. He aimed at making 
frames movabie, interchangeable, and practically service- 
able in bee culture.” And how true what follows: “Mobody 
before Mr. Langstroth ever succeeded in devising a mode 
of making and using a movable frame that was of any 
practical value in bee culture.” No man in the world, 
besides Mr. Langstroth, was so conversant with this whole 
subject as was Mr. Wagner. His extensive library and 
thorough knowledge made him a competent judge. 
Mr. Langstroth, though he knew of no previous inven- 
tion of frames contained in a case, when he made his inven? 
