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Movable Comb Hives. 



the honey, by introducing queens, and by many other 

 manipulations to be explained, which are only practicable 

 with a movable comb hive. 



MOVABLE COMB HIVES. 



There are, at present, two types of the movable comb 

 hive in use among us, each of which is unquestionably 

 valuable, as each has advocates among our most intelligent, 

 successful, and extensive apiarists. Each, too, has been 

 superseded by the other, to the satisfaction of the person 

 making the change. The kind most used consists of a box, 



Fig- 57- 



The Mhiiii Hive. 



in which hang the frames which hold the combs. The 

 adjacent frames are so far separated that the combs, which 

 just fill them, shall be the proper distance apart. In the 

 other kind, the ends of the frames are wider than the 

 comb, and when in pi)sitioii are close together, and of 

 thcinsehes foirn two sides of a box. When in use these 



