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32 SUCCESSFUL BEE KEEPING. 
Laren by the following, from the same 
1) pamphlet. “The frames with their 
contents, may be lifted out into the 
‘observation frame’ * * when- 
ever it is wished to examine the 
bees, &c., as the half-inch spaces be- 
tween the bee-frames, will allow of a 
sufficient distance to be preserved 
Fig. 18.* petween the lateral surfaces of the 
perpendicular combs formed in the bee-frames, and thus permit 
them to lift out by each other with facility,” p.14. Again,“ The 
whole interior of the hive is thus open to inspection at any moment, 
and a choice can be made of the combs containing the most honey, 
or the bee owner enabled to trace the devastations of the honey 
moth.” p. 17. Still further, the hive should be so constructed as 
to allow of every part of the combs to be inspected at any moment, 
and capable of removal when requisite,” p. 20. 
We now give Mr. Langstroth’s claim of movable frames : 
“ Second.—The use of the movable frames, A. A., fig. 4, or their 
equivalents, substantially as described ; also their use in combina- 
tion with the shallow chamber, with or without my arrangement 
for spare honey receptacles !” 
Mr. Langstroth’s frames, patented in 1852, are substantially the 
“ oblong bar-frames” of Mr. Munn, described in 1844; and how 
his mode of using them compares with Mr. Munn’s mode of using 
his triangular frames, described in April, 1851, as shown in the 
above quotations, the reader will be able to judge after consulting 
Mr. Langstroth’s work on the Honey Bee, pp. 15, 148, 149, or ex- 
amining one of his hives. 
Munn’s Divider.—On page 10 of his pa 
“ One of the triangular bee-frames can be 
can be used as a dyder between any nu 
and thus form the box into two compartm 
