ADVERTISEMENT. 



L. L. LANGSTROTH'S MOVABLE COMB HIVE. 

 Patented October 5th, 1852. 



Each comb in this hive is attached to a separate movable 

 frame, and by following the directions given in this Treatise, 

 they may be all taken out in a few minutes, without cutting 

 or injuring them in the least, or at all enraging the bees. 

 By this arrangement, weak stocks may be easily strengthen- 

 ed, by helping them to combs, honey, or maturing brood taken 

 from strong ones, and queenless colonies saved from certain 

 ruin, by giving them the means of obtaining another queen. 



As all the stocks in the Apiary, by the control of the 

 combs, can be kept strong in numbers and in possession of a 

 fertile queen, the ravages of the bee-moth may be effectually 

 prevented. 



If the bee-keeper suspects that anything is the matter with 

 a hive, he can open it, and by actual examination of its 

 combs, ascertain, in a few minutes, its true condition, and 

 thus apply intelligently the remedies which it needs. 



New colonies may be formed in less time than is usually 

 required for hiving natural swarms ; or the hive may be 

 managed on the common swarming plan, or enlarged, (with- 

 out any alteration of existing parts,) so as to afford ample ac- 

 commodation for a non-swarming stock. 



By a very simple arrangement, the queen may be confin- 

 ed to the hive while the workers have their liberty, so that 

 bees may be left at any time, without the least risk of their 

 swarming in the absence of the bee-keeper. The drones 

 when in full flight may, by the same device, be excluded 

 from the hive and destroyed. 



The surplus honey may be stored in an upper box, in 

 frames so secured as to admit of safe transportation, any one 

 of which may be taken out separately and disposed of; or if 



