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Simplicity Langstroth Hive. 



CHARACTER OF THE HIVE. 



The main feature of the hive should be simphcity, thereby 

 excluding^drawers and traps of all kinds. The hive shou d 

 be made of good pine or white w^ood lumber, thoroughly 

 seasoned, planed on both sides, and painted white on the 

 outside. Figure 59 represents a two-story Langstroth 

 hive. As will be seen this has a portico, and a bottom 

 board firmly nailed to the hive. Although Mr. Langstroth 

 desired both these features, and many now are like minded, 



Fig. 60. , 



One-Story Lan^sirotk Hive, 



many others omit both features. This hive holds eight 

 frames, which are as many as such bee-keepers as Messrs. 

 Heddon, Taylor and Hutchinson desire. Figure 60 repre- 

 sents the Simplicity one-story Langstroth hive as made 

 by A. I. Root. This contains 10 frames which unfortu- 

 nately were slightly modified so that they are 175^ instead 

 of 17^ inches long. Thus this is not the Langstroth frame, 

 but the Simplicity Langstroth. This style, one-story, is 

 designed for securing comb honey, while the two-story 

 (Fig. 59) is intended for use in obtaining extracted honey. 

 Figure 61 represents a two-story Simplicity Langstroth 

 hive with Gallup frame, which is 1 1 J^ inches square. 

 This hive I have used more than any other, and it has much 

 to recommend it. The Simplicity feature invented by A. 

 I. Root I think, consists of a bevel union of hive with bot- 

 tom board (not so in figure), hive with section crate or 

 upper story, and s ctio.i cipc or upper story with cover. 



