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still have honey unconsumed.”—AHoney Bee, pp. 329, 330, 
Mr. J.S Harbison to the same effect: ‘Many eminent 
apiarists bear testimony to the superiority of deep hives 
over those that are low and of large diameter.” — Bee 
Culture, p. 132. 
Mr. Langstroth’s frames compel him to forego the ‘ obv- 
cus advantcges” of a tall hive. He says (Honey Bee, p. 
330): “It would be impossible to use frames in it to ad- 
vantage”—true in regard to his frames and his mode of 
using them—and in a foot note he gives the following 
very good reason: ‘The deeper the frames the more diffi- 
cult it is to make them hang ¢ruve on the rabbets, and the 
greater the difficulty of handling them without crushing 
the bees, or breaking the combs.” 
In the Michigan quadruple hive are combined ihe ad- 
vantages of both height and depth—the frames being so 
constructed and operated as to admit auy desired height 
of hive, and the main entrance of each apartment being at 
the corner most remote from the centre, around which the 
bees, each colony in its own apartment, cluster in winter. 
The quedruple hive gives each colony the benefit to be 
derived from a single one equal in length to the diag- 
onal of the quadruple, in addition to the advantages 
of nearly four times the lateral space to be had in an or- 
dinary single hive. Hence the quadruple hive is adapted 
to fully gratify the “ disposition of the bees to carry their 
stores as far as possible from the entrance,” a feature not 
attainable in any other hive.* 
* Those who have bees in low hives, will find they will winter better if the 
hive be set on its end late in the fall, keeping the combs in a perpendicular 
position. Before doing this, the ‘rames and honey board should be made fast, 
so as to be kept in place. 
