ADVERTISEMENT. 



L. L. LANGSTROTH'S MOVABLE COMB HIVE. 

 Patented October 5, 1852. 



Each comb in this hive is attached to a separate, movable 

 frame, and in less than five minutes they may all be taken out, 

 without cutting or injuring them, or at all enraging the bees. 

 Weak stocks may be quickly strengtjiened by helping them 

 to honey and maturing brood from stronger ones ; queenless 

 colonies may be rescued from certain ruin by supplying 

 them with the means of obtaining another queen ; and the 

 ravages of the moth effectually prevented, as at any time 

 the hive may be readily examined and all the worms, &c.» 

 removed from the combs. New colonies may be formed in 

 less time than is usually required to hive a natural swarm ; 

 or the hive may be used as a non-swarmer, or managed on 

 the common swarming plan. The surplus honey may be 

 taken from the interior of the hive on the frames or in up- 

 per boxes or glasses, in the most convenient, beautiful and 

 saleable forms. Colonies may be safely transferred from 

 any other hive to this, at any season of the year, from April 

 to October, as the brood, combs, honey and all the contents 

 of the hive are transferred with them, and securely fastened 

 in the frames. That the combs can always be removed from 

 this hive with ease and safety, and that the new system, 

 by giving the perfect control over all the combs, effects a 

 complete revolution in practical bee-keeping, the subscriber 

 prefers to prove rather than assert. Practical Apiarians 

 and all who wish to purchase rights and hives, are invited 

 to visit his Apiary, where combs, honey and bees will be 

 taken from the hives ; colonies which may be brought to 

 him for that purpose, transferred from any old hive ; queens, 

 and the whole process of rearing them constantly exhibited ; 

 new colonies formed, and all processes connected with the 

 practical nnanagement of an Apiary fully illustrated and ex- 

 plained. 



