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C. M. Joslin, M. D., Saginaw Co., Mich., reports that in the 

 spring of 1876 he had two swarms of Italians in the Quinby hive. 

 During that summer he increased these to thirty-four swarms. Am- 

 erican Bee yournal. Vol. xiii., p. IOO. 



J. S. Marble, Chanute, Kansas, reports that in 1876 he increased 

 one swarm to thirteen, and took also 450 pounds of honey. He fed, 

 early in the season, 88 pounds of sugar to promote breeding. Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culliire, Vol. iv.,p. 293. 



3. Amount of Honey per Hive. — (Page 29.) J. E. Pleasants, 

 Los Angelos Co., Cal., says, '" Last spring I had forty-five swarms, 

 and increased to one hundred, besides getting 10,000 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey." — This gives 222 pounds per hive. — American Bee 

 Journal, Vol. xiii., p. 101. 



A. A. Baldwin, Sandusky, N. Y., reports, " My best Italian stock 

 gave one swarm on May 28th, and from the two I had 175 pounds of 

 box honey. The best Italian stock that I kept from increasing gave 

 150 pounds of box honey." — American Bee Journal, Vol. xiii., p. 

 420. 



G. M. Doolittle reports an average of 158 pounds of box honey per 

 hive, and an average of 446 pounds of extracted honey per hive. — 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture, Vol. v., p. 263. 



4. Movable-Comb Hive. — (Page 35.) The movable-comb bee- 

 hive was invented by the Rev. L. L. Langstroth, about the year 

 1850. It was patented, but the patent expired a few years since. 

 Mr. Langstroth, now in honored old age, lives at Oxford, Ohio. 

 His invention was the first and most important step in the science of 

 modern bee-culture. Without it artificial queen-rearing, nucleus 

 swarming, and using the honey extractor would all be impossible. 

 The movable-comb hive is, in essentials, simply a box with a lid, 

 like a common cheap trunk, provided the trunk had a hole made in 

 one end or side, near the bottom, for an entrance for the bees. The 

 lid, or cover, of the hive is, usually, not hinged. Inside this box, 

 near the top, is a rabbet on each side, or on each end, if the frames 

 are to hang lengthwise. Frames about an inch in width are made so 

 as to be about one-half inch smaller than the inside dimension of the 

 box or hive. The top bar of a frame is longer than the bottom bar, 

 so that its ends rest in the rabbets, and the frame hangs down in the 

 box. The hive is filled with these frames hanging side by side, 

 about one and a half inches from the centre of one frame to the 

 centre of the next. In these frames the bees build their combs. By 

 proper care on the part of the bee-keeper, the bees can be led to 

 build their combs straight and true, just filling the frames. Then, to 



