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THE BEE-HIVES. 



389. A short time after the issuing of the Langstroth 

 patent, the Baron Von Berlepsch, of Seebach, Thuringia, 

 invented frames of a somewhat simliar character. Carl T. E. 

 Von Siebold, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, 

 in the University of Munich, thus speaks of these frames: 



Fig. 60. 



BERLEPSCH HIVE WITH BACK CUSHION. 



(Prom the "lUustrierte Bienenzeitung.") 



"As the lateral adhesion of the combs built down from the 

 jars frequently rendered their removal diflScult, Berlepsch tried 

 to avoid this inconvenience, in a very ingenious way, by sus- 

 pending in his hives, instead of the bars, small quadrangular 

 frames, the vacuity of which the bees fill up with their comb, 

 by which the removal and suspension of the combs are greatly 

 facilitated, and altogether such a convenient arrangement is 



