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Simplicity Langstroth Hive. 



CHARACTER OF THE HIVE. 



The main feature of the hive should be simplicity, thereby 

 excluding drawers and traps of all kinds. The hive should 

 be made of good pine or white wood lumber, thoroughly 

 seasoned, planed on both sides, and painted white on the 

 outside. Figure 59 represents a two-story Langstroth 

 hive. As will be seen this has a portico, and a bottom 

 board firmly nailed to the hive. Although Mr. Langstroth 

 desired both these features, and many now are like minded, 



Fig. 60. 



One-Story Ijxngstroth Hive, 



many others omit both features. This hive holds eight 

 frames, which are as many as such bee-keepers as Messrs. 

 Heddon, Taylor and Hutchinson desire. Figure 60 repre- 

 sents the Simplicity one-story Langstroth hive as made 

 by A. I. Root. This contains 10 frames which unfortu- 

 nately were slightly modified so that they are 175^ instead 

 of 175^ inches long. Thus this is not the Langstroth frame, 

 but the Simplicity Langstroth. This style, one-story, is 

 designed for securing comb honey, while the two-story 

 (^Fig. 59) is intended for use in obtaining extracted honey. 

 Figure 61 represents a two-story Simplicity Langstroth 

 hive with Gallup frame, which is 1 1 1^ inches square. 

 This hive I have used more than any other, and it has much 

 to recommend it. The Simplicity feature invented by A. 

 I. Root I think, consists of a bevel union of hive with bot- 

 tom board (not so in figure), hive with section crate or 

 upper story, and s ctio;i ere or upper story with cover. 



