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THE BEE-HIVES. 



section. Radonan, in 1821, instead of a perforated ceiling, 

 used triangular bars, to -wliicli the bees attached their combs. 

 Chas. Soria, in 1845, used these bars at the bottom of each 

 story as well as at the top, with bee space between, so that 

 they could be removed, exchanged, or reversed, without crush- 

 ing any bees, or damaging a single cell (fig. 56). 



279. Other Apiarists divided their hives vertically, con- 

 formably with the shape of the combs of the bees, which hang 

 vertically. If we are correctly informed, it was Jonas de 

 Gelieu who inaugurated this style (fig. 57). He made his 



Fig. 56. 



EKE OF CHAS. SOBIA. 



(Prom Hamet.) 



Fig. 57. 



DIVIDING HIVE OF JONAS 

 DE GELIEU. 



(From Hamet.) 



hive divisible into only two parts. Oettl, towards the middle 

 of the nineteenth century, made a straw hive divided into 

 three vertical parts. The main advantage of these hives re- 

 sides in the facility of dividing them for artificial swarming. 

 But as this method of making artificial swarms is defective, 

 as will be shown further (470), and as all these con- 

 trivances did not allow a close study of the habits of the bee, 

 or permit the needed^ manipulations, it became necessary to 

 invent a hive whose every comb, and every part, the Apiarist 

 could promptly and easily control; a hive which, to employ 

 the forcible expression of Mr. Hamet, could "se demonter ' 

 comme un jeu de marionettes" ; (be taken to pieces like a 

 puppet-show) . 



