132 THE BEE-HIVES. 
The bees then continued their constructions downwards. 
To separate the sections from one another, they used a wire 
that cut the combs. Butler, in his ‘‘ Feminine Monarchy,’’ 
1634, shows hives composed of four sections, piled upon one 
another. Palteau, in 1750, advises bee-keepers to use a 
perforated ceiling at the top of each section. Radouan, in 
1821, instead of a perforated ceiling, uses triangular bars, 
to which the bees attach their combs (fig. 49). Chas. 
Soria, in 1845, used these bars at the bottom of each 
story as well as at the top, with bee space between, so that 
they can be removed, exchanged, or reversed, without 
crushing any bees, or damaging a single cell (fig. 50). 
mephery Bee ae 
Fig. 50. Fig. 51. 
EKE OF CHAS. SORIA. DIVIDING HIVE OF JONAS 
(From Hamet.) DE GELIEU. 
(From Hamet.) 
279. Other Apiarists divided their hives vertically, con- 
formably with the shape of the combs of. the bees, which 
hang vertically. If we are correctly informed, it was Jonas 
de Gelieu who inaugurated this style (fig. 51). He made 
his hive divisible into only two parts. Csttl, towards the 
middle of this century, made a straw hive divided into three 
vertical parts. The main advantage of these hives resides 
in the facility of dividing them for artificial swarming. But 
as this method of making artificial swarms is defective, as 
will be shown further, (471), and as all these contri- 
