Bee-keeping Appliances. 



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and are comfortable in them, and many of our most 

 advanced bee-keepers keep at least one or two of 

 them in remembrance of the past. 



Some years ago, it occurred perhaps to more than 



Fig. 4. — Bar-frame Hive, with each part shown separately. 



one intelligent mind, that if bees could be induced to 

 suspend their combs on bars of wood which could be 

 lifted out of a box and examined and then put back 

 in their places,, great results might be expected. This 



