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manship (figs. 4,5,and 11). Provision should also be made for winter 
protection. (See pages 39-41.) 
For comb honey, hives permitting the insertion in the brood apart- 
ment of any number of frames up to eight, or frequently up to ten, 
Fie, §6.—Tle Langstroth nive—Dadant-Quinby torm—cros secuon showing construction. 
are mostinuse. In securing extracted honey, those with ten to twelve 
frames in each story are preferable, and as many stories, one above 
the other, are employed 
as the strength of the 
colony and a given har- 
vest may require. A 
construction, therefore, 
which readily admits of 
expansion and of con- 
traction, as occasion 
demands, is desirable. 
Mention should be 
made of a hive of quite 
different constructicn, 
a prominent feature of 
which is this ease of 
contraction and expan- 
sion. Itis the last hive 
which the late M. Quinby gave to the public—the Quinby closed- 
end frame hive (fig. 6). This hive is used with great success by cer- 
tain American bee keepers of long experience and whose apiaries are 
among the largest in the world. 
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Fic. 6.—Quinby closed-end frames. 
