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THE BEE-HIVES. 



section. Radouan, in 1821, instead of a perforated ceiling, 

 vised triangiilar bars, to which the bees attaclied their combs. 

 Chas. Soria, in 1845, used these bars at the bottom of each 

 .stiiry.as well as at the top, with bee space between, so that 

 they conld be removed, exchanged, or reversed, without crush- 

 ing any bees, or damaging a single cell (fig. 56). 



379. Other Apiarists divided their hives vertically, con- 

 formably with the shape of the combs of the bees, which hang 

 vertically. If we are correctly informed, it was .Jonas de 

 Gelieu who inaugurated this style (tig. 57). He made his 



Fig 56, 



EKE OF CHAS. SORIA. 



(From Hamet.j 



■ P 



Fig. 57. 



DIVIDING HIVE OF JONAS 



DE GELIEU. 



(From Hamet.) 



hive divisiljle into only two parts. Oettl, inwards the middle 

 of the nineteenth century, made a straw hive divided into 

 three vertical parts. The main advantage of these hives re- 

 sides in the facility of dividing them for artificial swarming. 

 But as this method of making artificial swarms is defective, 

 as will be .sliuwn further (-1-70), and as all these con- 

 tri\aiiccs did not allow a close study of the habits of the bee, 

 or permit the needed manipulations, it became necessary to 

 invent a hive Avhose every comb, and every part, the Apiarist 

 conld promptly and easily control; a hive which, to employ 

 the forcible expression of ilr. Hamet, could ".sc demonter 

 conniir iiii jrit dc marionettes" : (be taken to pieces like a 

 puppet-show). 



