WIVES AND LDOXES. OY 
the purchaser possibly concludes, wiscly, to test it before 
going further. 
A swarm is hived in it, and the grand results awaited. 
By the side of it, stands a box hive, containing a similiar 
swarm, and if the boxes are well arranged, and the 
hive smaller than the other, which is usually the case, 
the chances are that more surplus honey will be stored 
in them, than in those on the movable-comb hive. 
Very often, too, the combs are not built straight in the 
frames, thus depriving him of the advantages to be gain- 
ed by handling them. The very natural conclusion of 
the experimenter, would be, that he was humbugged, and 
the movable-comb hive was inferior to the box. 
Notwithstanding the fact that most writers think it un- 
necessary to make mention of box hives, the fact that a large 
number of our bee-keepers still pursue the old method 
and use them, seems to me a sufficient reason for recogniz- 
ing them, at least so far as to call their attention to the 
deficiencies in their system, and to point out to them the 
benefits to be derived from a change made with due study 
and attention. 
Ever since I have been engaged in bee-culture, I have 
been under obligations to these box-hive men. We have 
bought bees largely of them, each spring, to transfer to 
our hives with movable frames, and thus fill up our 
stocks to Italianize, and prepare for the following season’s 
operations. 
I might occupy much space in describing many hives 
of much merit, but with an extended knowledge of a very 
large number, I shall class them under but two heads, 
Hanging-Frame and Standing-Frame Hives. 
THE HANGING-FRAME OR LANGSTROTH HIVE. 
In the previous revision of this work, in 1865, Mr. 
Quinby fully recognized the merits of Mr. Langstroth’s 
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