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The use of the division board is to contract the chamber 

 in winter, to vary it so as to keep combs covered in spring, 

 to convert the hive into a nucleus hive, and to contract the 

 chamber in the upper-story of a two-story hive, when first 

 adding frames to secure surplus comb-honey. 



THE HUBER HIVE. 



The other type of hives originated when Huber hinged 

 several of his leaf or unieomb hives together, so that the 

 frames would open like the leaves of a book ; though it has 

 been stated that the Grecians had, in early times, something 

 similar. • 



In 1866, Mr. T. F. Bingham, then of New York, improved 

 upon the Huber hive, securing a patent on his triangular 

 frame hive. This, so far as I can judge, was the Huber hive 

 made practical. 



In 1868, Mr. M. S. Snow, then of New York, now of Min- 

 nesota, procured a patent on his hive, which was essentially 

 the same as the hives now known as the Quinby and Bingham 

 hives. 



Soon after, the late Mr. Quinby brought forth his hive, 

 which is essentially the same as the above, only differing in 

 details. No patent was obtained by Mr. Quinby, whose great 

 heart and boundless generosity endeared him to all acquaint- 

 ances. Those who knew him best, never tire of praising the 

 unselfish acts and life of this noble man. If we except Mr. 

 Langstroth, no man has probably done so much to promote 

 the interest and growth of improved apiculture in the United 

 States. His hive, his book, his views of wintering, his intro- 

 duction of the bellows-smoker — -a gift to apiarists — all speak 

 his praise as a man and an apiarist. 



The fact that the Bingham hive, as now made, is a great 

 favorite with those who have used it, and is pronounced by so 

 capable a judge as Mr. Heddon, to be the best movable-comb 

 hive in existence, that Mr. Quinby preferred this style or type 

 of hive, that the Quinby form is used by the Hetherington 

 brothers. Captain J. E., the prince of American apiarists, 

 and 0. J., whose neatness, precision, and mechanical skill 

 are enough to awaken envy ; that the Kussell hive is but a 



