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Another frame in common use, is one about one foot square. I 

 have long used one ll;4; inches square, and still think that this 

 frame has much to commend it. It is light, easily handled, 

 convenient for nucleus hives, and perhaps the best form for 

 forming a compact winter cluster ; and yet upon mature re- 

 flection I have decided to use in future, as already stated, the 

 L/angstroth frame, and advise all others to do so. 



It is very desirable to have bees in hives such as others 

 will wish in case we sell bees, as every bee-keeper is almost 



Fig. 96. 



Gallup Frame, — Original. 



a Top-bar. 

 6, 6 Side-bars or uprights. 



c Comb-guide. 

 d Bottom-bar. 



sure to do more or less each year. The Ivangstroth hive is used 

 much more generally than any other, and that it is excellent 

 is shown in the fact that most of our successful bee-keepers, 

 from Canada to the Gulf, use it, and I am free to say that, 

 taking the whole country through, it is doubtful if a better 

 style or form exists than the regular lyangstroth. The chief 

 objection urged against its use, that it is not the best form 

 to secure safe wintering, lacks force in view of the fact that 

 many who have been most successful use this frame. Indeed, 

 with thorough protection this frame is as good as any, and 

 most bee-keepers are learning that in our Northern States pro- 

 tection is absolutely essential to success. 



That we shall ever have a uniform frame used by all api- 

 arists, though exceedingly desirable, is too much to be hoped. 

 I do not think there is sufficient advantage in any form to war- 

 rant us in holding to it, if by yielding we could secure this 

 uniformity. Nor do I think the form and size so material as 



