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BEE-CBI.TURE. 
tages are overbalanced by the disadvantages. So that I 
would recommend the larger portion of bee keepers to retain 
a simple style of hive. 
THE LEAP BEE HIVE. 
MOVABLE COMB HIVE. 
Twelve years ago I attended an agricultural fair in Mercer 
county, Pa., and saw Seth Hogeland exhibiting a colony of 
bees in a Langstroth movable comb hive. He was litiingthe 
combs and honey, with the bees adhering from the hive, and 
handing them around in the crowd. No one was hurt and 
no one reemed scared ; the bees were composed ; no combs 
were broken or honey ruuuiug. 1 viewed the operation with 
