142 \THE BEE-HIVES. 
sphere of Apiarian knowledge, I have endeavored to remedy the 
many difficulties with which bee-culture is beset, by adapting 
my invention to the actual habits and wants ofthe insect. I have 
also tested the merits of this hive by long continued experi- 
ments, made on a large scale, so that I might not, by deceiving 
both myself and others, add another to the useless contrivances 
which have deluded and disgusted a too credulous public. I 
would, however, utterly repudiate all claims to having devised 
even a perfect bee-hive. Perfection belongs only to the works of 
Him, to whose omniscient eye were present all causes and 
effects, with all their relations, when He spake, and from nothing 
formed the Universe. For man to stamp the label of perfection 
upon any work of his own, is to show both his folly and pre- 
sumption.” 
289. A short time after the issuing of the Langstroth 
patent, the Baron Von Berlepsch, of Seebach, Thuringia, 
invented frames of a somewhat similar character. Carl T. 
E. Von Siebold, Professor of. Zodlogy and Comparative 
Anatomy, in the University of Munich, thus speaks of these 
frames: 
“As the lateral adhesion of the combs built down from the 
bars frequently rendered their removal difficult, Berlepsch tried 
to avoid this inconvenience, in a very ingenious way, by sus- 
pending in his hives, instead of the bars, small quadrangular 
frames, the vacuity of which the bees fill up with their comb, by 
which the removal and suspension of the combs are greatly fa- 
cilitated, and altogether such a convenient arrangement is given 
to the Dzierzon-hive, that nothing more remains to be desired.” (???) 
Mr. Cheshire (2d vol. page 46) was mistaken in attribut- 
ing to Dzierzon the invention of the frame-hive, for Dzier- 
zon has not even invented, but only perfected the movable- 
comb hive (282-283), having always, to this day, been 
opposed to frames. So the German hive is known as the 
Berlepsch hive. 
290. For years, both of these inventions shared equally 
the attention of bee-keepers in Europe. Berlepsch’s hive 
is used principally in Germany, Italy, and part of Switzer- 
land; Langstroth’s in England, France, and the French- 
