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BEE-CULTURE. 
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THE LEAF BEE-HIVE. 
MOVABLE COMB HIVE. 
Ten years ago I attended an agricultural fair in Mercer 
county, Pa , and saw Seth Ilogeland exhibiting a colony of 
bees in a Langstroth movable comb hive. He was lift ing the 
combs and honey with the bees adhering from the hive, and 
handing them around in tho crowd. No one was hurt and no 
one seemed scared ; the bees were composed ; no combs were 
broken or honey running. I viewed the operation with won- 
der. I there saw something new. Bees I found were no 
exception to the dominion given to man over the lower order 
of creation. Bees and bee-keeping were not what I had taken 
them to be. I purchased “ Langstroth on the Honey-Bee,’' 
