HIVES AND BOXES. 95 



CHAPTEE VI. 

 HIVES AND BOXES. 



MOTABLE-COMB HIVE. 



The movable-comb hive was invented by Eev. L. L. 

 Langstroth, about 1850. The same idea was developed 

 about the same time, but in a less practical form, by 

 Dzierzon, the noted G-erman bee-keeper, whose researches 

 in the natural history of bees, and practical application 

 of the truths he discovered, have won for him the de- 

 served appreciation and admiration of all intelligent 

 bee-keepers. 



Mr. Langstroth's invention, however, was of so practi- 

 cal a form as to at once command the approbation of all 

 investigating minds, and speedily wrought a revolution 

 in bee-culture, such as all apiarian history had not before 

 recorded. It is, perhaps, fitting that I should here 

 express my genuine admiration for, and appreciation of 

 the work Mr. Langstroth has done for American bee- 

 keepers. In careful, intelligent study, and insight into 

 the habits of the honey-bee, the clear perception of the 

 best means of adapting the requirements of the apiarian, 

 to their natures ; and in the elegant and scholarly style 

 in which his ideas have been presented to us, he has no 

 superior, and indeed, no equal, in the list of writers on 

 bee-culture. Mr. P. H. Elwood, one of the most scholarly 

 and educated apiarians of my acquaintance, says of Mr. 

 Langstroth's book, that it is one of the most beautifully 

 written works that he ever read on any topic whatever. 



CONSTRUCTION AND ADVANTAGES. 



For the benefit of that class of bee-keepers who are yet 

 using box hives, and are unfamiliar w5tb the constructioq 



