MOVABLE-FRAME HIVES. 



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taken out. This hive cannot furnish the surplus honey in a 

 form the most salable in our markets, or admitting of safe 

 transportation in the comb. Notwithstanding these disad- 

 vantages, it has achieved a great triumph in Germany, and 

 given a new impulse to the cultivation of bees. 



Movable-Frame Hives. 



384. About one hundred years ago, Huber invented the 

 leaf -hive, which enabled him to make his discoveries. It con- 

 sisted of twelve frames, each an inch and a quarter in width, 



Fig. 58. 



THE HUBER LEAF HIVE. 



which were connected together by hinges, so that they could 

 be opened or shut at pleasure, like the leaves of a book. 



285. This hive was improved upon by several bee-keepers 

 in Europe and America, the most noted of whom were Quinby, 

 and his son-in-law, L. C. Root, author and publisher of 

 "Quinby's New Bee-keeping." This style of hive is generally 

 known as the closed-end standing-frame hive. The reader will 

 understand that, in these hives, the combs hang separately in 

 frames, which, when joined together, make a body, enclosed 

 in an outer covering. Their being used by a number of 



