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ture in the United States. His hive, his book, his views of win- 

 tering, and foul brood, his introduction of the bellows-smoker — 

 a g-if t to apiarists — all speak his praise as a man and an api- 

 arist. 



The facts that the Bingham hive, as now made, is a great 

 favorite with those that have used it, that Mr. Quinby pre- 

 ferred this style or type of hive, that the Quinby form is used 

 by the Hetherington brothers — Capt. J. E., the prince of Ameri- 

 can apiarists, with his thousands of colonies, and O. J., whose 

 neatness, precision, and mechanical skill are enough to 

 awaken envy — are surely sufiicient to excite curiosity and be- 

 speak a description. 



The Quinby hive (Fig. 100) as used by the Hetherington 

 brothers, consists of a series of rectangular frames (Fig. 100) 



Fig. 100. 



Frame, JBottom-Board and Frame-Support, of Quinby Mive. — Original. 



twelve by seventeen inches, outside measure. The end-bars 

 of these frames are one and one-half inches wide, and half an 

 inch thick. The top and bottom one inch wide and half an 

 inch thick. The outer halves of the end-bar project one-fourth 

 of an inch beyond the top and bottom bars. This projection 

 is lined on the inside with sheet-iron, which is inserted in a 

 groove which runs one inch into each end of the end-pieces, 

 and is tacked by the same nails that fasten the end-bars to the 

 top and bottom bars. This iron at the end of the bar bends in 

 at right-angles (Fig. 100, a), and extends one-fourth of an inch 

 parallel with the top and bottom bars. Thus, when these 



