production of comb. In another you cait 
best work for the extracted article. The orl 
dinary individual denominates all hivesl 
not skeps or grocery boxes, as "patent 
hives. " He means those actually made by 
skilled hands for the purpose of convenient-j 
ly and profitably keeping bees. 
Modern hives all have frames withinj 
which may be easily removed or exchanged. 
They vary a little in size, but are very simi- 
lar, providing practically the same cubic? 
amount of space for comb-building in the 
frames, in which the bees store honey for 
their own consumption and to raise their 
young upon. Since I am writing chiefly 
for beginners I shall confine my counsel to 
such as keep bees for the raising of comb 
honey in the little one-pound sections so 
salable in the shops, for the reason that the 
average beginning bee-keeper will rarely 
concern himself with, going to the extra 
trouble and expense of raising extracted 
honey (that thrown from uncapped combs 
by the centrifugal force of a machine called 
an extractor) although it pays if one has 
ten colonies or more and has the time for it. 
Ko bee-keeper has tried or cared to try ev- 
ery make of modern hive. I have used four 
— the " Langstroth, " named after Rev. Lo- 
renzo L. Langstroth, the pioneer in modern 
bee-keeping, the first movable-frame hive; 
the "Simplicity," very similar; the "Dove- 
tailed," similar again, but named so be- 
cause its corners were locked by sawed in- 
sets instead of being all nailed. These three 
have brood-frames within of about a size. 
The fourth, which ten years ago I decided 
upon, and believe to be the best hive made 
for the raising of fancy comb honey, the 
greatest amount of it in any one year, as 
well as the best one in which to winter one's 
bees without loss from cold, is the Danzen- 
baker. 
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