162 THE BEE-HIVES. 
the position of these blocks on the alighting-board (see fig. 
67, in which some of the positions are shown), the size of 
the entrance to the hive may be varied in a great many ways, 
and the bees always directed to it by the shape of the block, 
without any loss of time in searching for it. 
Tus Hive We Prerer. 
340. The diagram we give (fig. 68), of the hive we pre- 
fer to all others, can be taken as a pattern for any other 
size, by changing the size of the pieces and retaining only 
the exact distances between the frames and the body, and 
the height of the entrance. Its details can be varied ad 
infinitum. It can hold eleven frames, but generally we use 
only nine frames and two contracting, or division-boards, 
or ten frames and one division-board. (349.) 
This hive, in the dimensions given, is not a new, untried 
pattern. We have used several hundreds of them for years, 
with the best of success. It is used extensively by several 
large producers. 
341. In consequence of our writings in the Swiss and 
French bee-papers, it was adopted, under the name of the 
Quinby-Dadant hive, by several progressive bee-keepers on 
the other side of the Atlantic, where it gets new partisans 
every year. 
The publisher of the Revue Internationale d’ Apiculture, 
Mr. Ed. Bertrand, in the number of October 1887, writes: 
“These wide hives, several bee-keepers find that they are 
too small; for some have increased them to thirteen frames in- 
stead of eleven, and I have seen such large hives, last Summer, 
filled with bees and honey, besides two upper stories of thirteen 
half-frames each, the whole containing 120 quarts, all occupied 
by the daughters of the same queen.” 
In the same number, a German bee-keeper, Mr. Chas. 
