MOVABLE-FRAME HIVES. 



147 



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

 cipally clue 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.") 



Pig. 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 



