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or diminish the space in the box, according to the size of the swarm, 
or the increasing wants of the bees for more room.” 
Mr. L’s claim of the divider : 
“ Third.—A divider substantially as described, in combination 
with a movable cover, allowing the divider to be inserted from 
above between the ranges of comb.” He says, “ By means of a 
movable partition, my hive can be readily adjusted to the wants of 
either, large or small colonies.”—Honey Bee, p. 96. 
Munn’s space around the frames-—“ The divider is made to fit 
close to the box at the two sides, by means of extra slips of wood, 
to prevent the bees crawling between the frames and outer box, 
as they can do around the bee-frames.”—p. 14. “The bee-frames 
form, as it were, a smaller box within the triangular box, and are 
not in immediate contact with the external air, but have a half-inch 
space nearly all around them,” p. 17. 
Mr. L’s claim : 
“ First.——The use of a shallow exes substantially as described, 
in combination with a perforated cover, for enlarging or diminish- 
ing at will the size and number of the spare honey receptacles.” 
What are the “ essential and patented features” of Mr. L’s inven- 
tion? Above we have given them as gleaned from his book, to 
which we have added his claims. On page 15 of his work, after 
and Tanne before. ‘him Mr. Munn’s penapilet of 1851, CONTAINING 
THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATION OF Munn’s MovaBLe Bar-Frame Hye, 
Mr. L. says, “ One thing, however, was still wanting. The cutting 
of the combs from their attachments to the sides of the hive [!!!] 
was attended with much loss of time, both to myself and the bees. 
This led me to INVENT A METHOD by which the combs were attached to 
MOVABLE FRAMES, SO suspended in the hives as to touch neither top, 
bottom nor sides.” !!! 
In the Bee Journal for June, 1861, p..142, Mr. L. says, “ If Hu- 
ber had only contrived a plan for suspending his frames, instead of 
folding them together like the leaves of a book, I believe that the 
cause of apiarian science would have been fifty years in advance of 
what it now is. 
