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MANUAL OF THE APIAEY. ' 



about 9^ inches long, are formed 1^ inches apart on the inside 

 of the bottom of the box, as its length will admit. ' At the 

 top are corresponding grooves to those made in the bottom 

 of the box. The bee-frames are made of half inch mahogany, 

 being 12 inches high, 9 inches long, and not more than half 

 an inch broad, sliding into the fifteen grooves formed on the 

 bottom, and kept securely in their places by the upper grooves," 

 and by propolis, the author might well have added. American 

 apiarists need not be told that such a hive would be wholly 

 impracticable. Without bees in it, the changes of weather 



Fig. 112. 



would make the sliding of the frames very difficult ; with the 

 bees inside, the removal of the frames would be practically 

 impossible. 



In 1851 Mr. Munn issued a second edition of his book, in 

 the preface of which I find the following : " Having materially 

 simplified the bar-frame hive, by forming the ' oblong bar- 

 frames' into ' triangular frames,' and making them lift out of 

 the top, instead of the back of the bee-box, I have repub- 

 lished the pamphlet." The triangular hive (Fig. 112) is 

 described and figured, and is the same as found illustrated in 



