202 Huber Style not Popular. 
placed one hive above another to any height desired, while 
the frames may be reversed, end for end, or bottom for 
top, or the whole brood-chamber turned up-side down. 
Thus, by doubling, we may have a depth of ten inches for 
winter. It will be seen at once that this hive possesses all 
the advantages claimed for the new Heddon and Shuck 
hives, except the frames are not held so securely. Yet it 
is far more simple, which is greatly in its favor. 
The objections which I have found in the use of such 
hives are the fact that so few use them, and danger of 
killing bees in rapid handling. They can be manipulated 
with rapidity if we care not how many bees we crush. It 
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Observatory Hive. 
hurts me to kill a bee, and so I find the Langstroth style 
more quickly manipulated. Mr. Snow, too, who was the 
first to make the above style of hive, has discarded it in 
favor of the Langstroth. His objection to the above, is 
the fact that the various combs are not sure to be so built 
as to be interchangeable. Yet that such apiarists as those 
above named prefer these Huber hives, after long use of 
the other style, is certainly not without significance, 
