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true that temporary packing calls for extra labor (but it does not 

 come at a hurrying- time of the year), and there was a time when it 

 also resulted in some untidiness and unsig-htliness in the apiary dur- 

 ing- the winter, but the neat outer case and improved methods of 

 packing- that are now being adopted, have removed the latter objec- 

 tion, and greatly reduced the former. These methods of temporary 

 packing are cheaper than the chaff hives, while the advantag-e of 

 having light, sing-le-walled hives during the working- season, hives 

 that can be picked up, handled, manipulated, tiered-up, carried, if 

 advisable, to a distant or more desirable location — hives, in short, 

 that can be handled in a way that means business — all these advan- 

 tages are so great that I should never think of adopting the chaff 

 hive. I know there are methods of management in which the un- 

 wieldy, stand-still character of the chaff hive proves no obstacle; but 

 such methods are not the most expeditious. 



In brief, my choice of a hive for Michigan is a simple, plain box 

 with plain, all-wood hanging frames — and I would winter the bees in 

 the cellar. 



DIVISIBLE-BROOD-CHAMBER HIVE. 



