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CHAPTER VI. 
HIVES AND BOXES. 
MOVABLH-COMB TIVE, 
The movable-comb hive was invented by Rev. L. L. 
Langstroth, about 1850. The same idea was developed 
about the same time, but in a less practical form, by 
Dzierzon, the noted German bec-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 bec- 
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 ADVAN TAGES, 
For the benefit of that class of bee-keepers who are yet 
using box hives, and are unfamiliar with the construction 
