MOVABLE-FRAME HIVES. 



147 



with the Langstroth hive, now recognize that success is prin- 

 cipally due to the manipulations that it permits. 



296. Nay, if the student will but refer to a former edition 



Fig. 62. 



THE GRAVENHOEST HIVE. 



(From the "Illustrierte Bienenzeitung.") 



Fig. 63. 



OLD STANDARD LANGSTROTH FRAME. 



of this very book (1859), the first words of it will show him 

 the progress accomplished since then: 



' ' Practical bee-keeping in this country is in a very depressed 

 condition, being entirely neglected by the mass of those most 



