104 HITES AND BOXES. 



were yet points in which the hanging-frame hire was de- 

 ficient, especially when he desired to control swarming. 

 After prolonged study and experiment, he invented, ahout 

 the year 1868, the "New Quinby Hive," with standing 

 frame, and at the time of his death, in 1875, he had so 

 far demonstrated its practicability, and superiority, that 

 it was a source of much gratification. 



I designate this as the New Quinby hive, from the 

 fact that two other hives have been known as the Quinby 

 hive, viz. ; the box -hive recommended in the first edi- 

 tion of this book, and the modified form of the Lang- 

 stroth, just described. 



The question as to the best size of a hive to meet all 

 the requirements of the advanced bee-keeper, cannot, I 

 maintain, be answered so well with any other hive. The 

 fact is, that with this hive and frame, the size may vary 

 from one frame for queen-rearing, to 16 for extracting, or 

 include any intermediate number, according to the object 

 in view, and in every case, the hive is equally complete 

 and perfect. And I claim it to be indisputable, that for 

 box and extracted honey, wintering, and indeed, in all 

 the facilities it furnishes, the New Quinby hive cannot 

 be surpassed by any hive now in use. 



The question may be very properly asked, if this hive 

 is all that I claim, why has it not been more generally 

 adopted ? Those who are familiar with its history since 

 it was first given to the public can readily divine the 

 cause. This, as well as many other meritorious inven- 

 tions, has sufEered materially in reputation by being sent 

 out in a crude, imperfect form, before the details of con- 

 struction were sufficiently perfected, to commend it to the 

 favor of less patient manipulators. It would be a source 

 of deep regret to me, if even a single person should sup- 

 pose for a moment, that the new Quinby hive now used 

 by J. B. Hetherington with such flattering success is not 

 an improvement upon those first constructed over ten 



