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cloth which may be turned back to permit the bees to 

 enter the feeder, when feeding is desired. In fall, win- 

 ter, and spring, a section case left on the hive and filled 

 with fine sawdust or chaff is a most desirable substitute 

 for a heavy, awkward chaff hive. 



THE HUBEK HIVE. 



The other type of hives originated wlb m Huber hinged 

 several of his leaf or unicomb hives together so that the 

 frames -would open like the leaves of a book. In August, 

 1779, Huber wrote to Bonnet as follows: "I took several 

 small fir boxes, a foot square and fifteen lines wide, and joined 

 them together by hinges, so that they could be opened and 

 shut like the leaves of a book. Wher using a hive of this 

 description, we took care to fix & comb ir each frame, and 

 then introduced all the bees." (Edinburgh edition-of Huber, 

 p. 4.) Although Morlot and others attempted to improve 

 this hive, it never gained favor with practical apiarists. 



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. Mr. Bingham now uses a modification of 

 this hive (Fig. 53). 



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 other man has probably done so much to pro- 

 mote the interest and growth of improved apiculture in the 

 United States. His hive, his book, his views of wintering, his 

 introduction of the bellows-sinoker — a gift to apiarists— all 

 speak his praise as a man and an apiarist. 



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

 favorite with those that have used it, that Mr. Quinby pre- 

 ferred this style or type of hive, that the Quinby form is used 

 by the Hetherington brothers, Captain J. E. , the prince of 



