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were singularly astonished at the tranquillity with 
which the bees permitted one to open it from which 
we gather that, practically, the frame hive has been in 
use for more than a hundred years. 
But we must not omit to note that Huber made his 
hive of practical service, foreshadowing many present 
methods — e.g.^ swarming his bees artificially by simple 
division of the colony. He placed partition boards 
(j, j-. Fig. 9) in the centre, permitting each half to 
have an entrance when a new queen was raised in 
Fig. 10.— Huber’s Bar Hive for Studying the Way in which Comb is Built. 
•c6, Comb Bar ; g, g, Glass Sheets ; s, s, Screws ; e, Entrance. 
the queenless portion, a method of procedure the 
merits of which will be hereafter fully discussed. Nor 
did this remarkable man, who thus gave us a movable 
comb hive not requiring very large changes to make 
it greatly like those now used by some advanced 
apiculturists, fail in contriving an observatory (Fig. 
10) which could be supposed to be first cousin to 
some that have in recent years competed at our 
shows. His object was to watch the growth of comb. 
