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THE BEE-HIVE3. 



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. 



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Fig. 56. 



SHOWING SOME OP THE EARLY IMPROVEMENTS OV THE LANGSTROTH 

 HIVE, STILL IN USE IN SOME SECTIONS. 



293. The superiority of the Langstroth hive is so evi- 

 dent that we were not surprised to read in the Revue In- 

 ternationale d' Apiculture, Sept. 1885 : 



