144 THE BEE-IIIVES. 
with a square hole in the center. The frames are sus- 
pended, in grooves, by the ends of their upper bars, and 
have to be taken out with pincers. 
292. The worst feature of this hive is that, if it is nec- 
essary to reach the last frame, every one of the others has 
to be taken out. There are twenty combs in the brood- 
chamber. It is safe to say, that a hive built on the Lang- 
stroth principle, can be visited five times more rapidly, 
than a hive built on the Berlepsch idea. These inconven- 
iences, coupled with the fact that the brood apartment of 
the Berlepsch hive is divided into two stories, and that the 
surplus apartment cannot be enlarged, ad infinitum, make 
the Berlepsch hive inferior; and we can safely predict that 
hives with movable ceiling will, some day, be exclusively 
used throughout the world. 
Fig. 56. 
SHOWING SOME OF THE EARLY IMPROVEMENTS OF THE LANGSTROTH 
HIVE, STILL IN USE IN SOME SECTIONS. 
298. The superiority of the Langstroth hive is so evi- 
dent that we were not surprised to read in the [evue In- 
ternationale d’ Apiculture, Sept. 1885: 
