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Huber Style not Popular, 



placed one hive above another to any height desired, while 

 the frames may be reversed, end for end, or bottom for 

 top, or the whole brood-chamber turned up-side down. 

 Thus, by doubling, we may have a depth of ten inches for 

 winter. It will be seen at once that this hive possesses all 

 the advantages claimed for the new Heddon and Shuck 

 hives, except the frames are not held so securely. Yet it 

 is far more simple, which is greatly in its favor. 



The objections which I have found in the use of such 

 hives are the fact that so few use them, and danger of 

 killing bees in rapid handling. They can be manipulated 

 with rapidity if we care not how many bees we crush. It 



Fig. 74. 



Observatory Hive. 



hurts me to kill a bee, and so I find the Langstroth style 

 more quickly manipulated. Mr. Snow, too, who was the 

 first to make the above style of hive, has discarded it in 

 favor of the Langstroth. His objection to the above, is 

 the fact that the various combs are not sure to be so built 

 as to be interchangeable. Yet that such apiarists as those 

 above named prefer these Huber hives, after long use of 

 the other style, is certainly not without significance. 



