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Early Movable Comb Hives, 



Langstroth hive nor a practical one. In 1851 this hive (Fig. 35) 

 was improved (?). Well does Neighbour say in his valuable 

 hand-book, "This invention was of no avail to apiarists." 



Munn's Improved Hive. 



M. DeBeauvoys, of France, in 184'7, and Schmidt, of Ger- 

 many, in 1851, invented movable-comb hives. The frames 

 were tight-fitting, and, of course, not practical. Dzierzon 

 adopted the bar hive in 1838. In this hive each comb had to 

 be cut loose as it was removed. 



THE LANGSTKOTH HIVE. 



In 1851, our own Langstroth, without any knowledge of 

 what foreign apiarian inventors had done, save what he could 

 find in Huber, and edition 1838 of Bevan, invented the hive 

 (Fig. 36) now in common use among the advanced apiarists 

 of America. It is this hive, the greatest apiarian invention 

 ever made, that has placed American apiculture in advance of 

 that of all other countries. What practical bee-keeper of 

 America could agree with H. Hamet, edition 1861, p. 166, 

 who, in speaking of the DeBeauvoys' hive, says that the im- 



