178 Simplicity Langstroth Hive. 
CHARACTER OF THE HIVE. 
The main feature of the hive should be simplicity, thereby 
ex¢luding drawers and traps of all kinds. The hive should 
be made of good pine or white wood lumber, thoroughly 
seasoned, planed on both sides, and painted white on the 
outside. Figure 59 represents a two-story Langstroth 
hive. As will be seen this has a portico, and a bottom 
board firmly nailed to the hive. Although Mr. Langstroth 
desired both these features, and many now are like minded, 
Fic. 60. 
One-Story Langstroth Hive. 
many others omit both features. This hive holds eight 
frames, which are as many as such bee-keepers as Messrs. 
Heddon, Taylor and Hutchinson desire. Figure 60 repre- 
sents the Simplicity one-story Langstroth hive as made 
by A. I. Root. This contains 10 frames which unfortu- 
nately were slightly modified so that they are 1754 instead 
of 173% inches long. Thus this is not the Langstroth frame, 
but the Simplicity Langstroth. This style, one-story, is 
designed for securing comb honey, while the two-story 
(Fig. 59) is intended for use in obtaining extracted honey. 
Figure 61 represents a two-story Simplicity Langstroth 
hive with Gallup frame, which is 111 ‘inches square. 
This hive I have used more than any other, and it has much 
to recommend it. The Simplicity feature invented by A. 
I. Root I think, consists of a bevel union of hive with bot- 
tom board (not so in figure), hive with section crate or 
upper story, and s-ction c.e or upper story with cover. 
