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in details. No patent was obtained by Mr. Quinby, whose 
great heart and boundless generosity endeared him to all 
acquaintances. Those who knew him best, never tire of 
praising the unselfish acts and life of this noble man. If 
we except Mr. Langstroth, no other man has probably 
done so much to promote the interest and growth of 
improved apiculture in the United States. His hive, his 
book, his views of wintering, his introduction of the bel- 
lows-smoker—a gift to apiarists—all speak his praise as a 
man and an apiarist. 
The facts that the Bingham hive, as now made, is a 
great favorite with those that have used it, that Mr. Quinby 
preferred this style or type of hive, that the Quinby form 
is used by the Hetherington brothers, Capt. J. E., the 
Fic. 72. 
Frame, Bottom-board and Frame-Snpport, of Quinby Hive. 
prince of American apiarists, with his thousands of colo- 
nies, and O. J., whose neatness, precision, and mechanical 
skill are enough to awaken envy, are surely sufficient to 
excite curiosity and bespeak a description. 
The Quinby hive (Fig. 72), as used by the Hethering- 
ton brothers, consists of a series of rectangular frames (Fig. 
72) twelve by seventeen inches, outside measure. The end, 
bars of these frames are one and one-half inches wide and 
half an inchthick, The top and bottom one inch wide 
and half an inch thick. _ The outer halves of the end bar 
project one-fourth of an inch beyond the top and bottom- 
