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HIVES 
1789. But the peculiar feature of the 
Bingham was that it made use of shallow 
frames only five inches deep, a series of 
them being lashed together by means of a 
wire loop and stretcher sticks, said loop 
drawing on the follower-boards in such a 
way as to bring tight compression on 
frames enclosed in the manner shown. Seven 
of these brood-frames in the hive made up 
a brood-nest, and an entire brood-nest 
might consist of one or two sets of frames. 
The top-bar was dropped down from the 
top of the end-bars a bee-space, while the 
bottom-bars were flush with the bottoms of 
the end-bars. With a bottom-board having 
a %-inch strip on each side, the ordinary 
bee-space is preserved thru the several divi¬ 
sions of the hive. 
The super is like any ordinary one 
adapted to comb honey, except that it uses 
coiled springs to produce the necessary 
tension. 
Altho Mr. Bingham used this hive for 
a great many years, and quite successfully 
too, no one else seems to have done much 
with it; but a modification of the hive is 
shown in the Danzenbaker and the Hed- 
don. 
THE DANZENBAKER HIVE. 
The Danzenbaker consists of a brood- 
chamber of the same, length and width as 
the ten-frame Langstroth Dovetailed hive, 
but deep enough to take in a depth of 
frame of only 7^4> inches. The rabbet, in¬ 
stead of being near the upper edge, is 
dropped down about midway; or, more 
strictly speaking, there is a cleat 01 board 
nailed on the inside of the ends of the hive. 
On this support hang the closed-end brood- 
frames, pivoted at the center of the end- 
bars by means of a rivet driven thru from 
the inside, as shown in the cut below. 
Ten of these frames fill the hive. As these 
frames are pivoted in the center, as shown 
below, they can be reversed; and this fea¬ 
ture, while it costs nothing, is something to 
be desired, as it enables us to have all 
frames filled solid with comb. 
The bottom of the hive is the same as 
that for the Dovetailed hive, already de¬ 
scribed. The super for comb honey takes 
in the 4x5 plain section, and makes use of 
the fence-separator system. The sections 
are supported in section-holders; indeed, 
the whole arrangement is the same as the 
section-holder super already described in 
Comb Honey. 
This hive was designed primarily for the 
production of comb honey. As a comb- 
honey hive it is a very good one; but on 
account of handling the brood-frames it 
has become so unpopular that it has almost 
gone out of use. Any hive with Hoffman 
or with the unspaced frames, will, in a 
given time, permit the examination of 
three or four times the comb surface of the 
closed-end frames unless a single exception 
be made of the closed-end Quinby, illus¬ 
trated and described under the head of 
Frames, Sele-spacing. 
Where bee glue (propolis) is very abun¬ 
dant the closed-end frames become so bad¬ 
ly gummed up that it is almost impossible 
to separate them at times. For that rea¬ 
son the foul-brood bee inspectors general¬ 
ly advise against the Danzenbaker frames. 
The same general criticisms above men¬ 
tioned would apply with equal force 
against the Heddon hive next described, 
which likewise, and for the same reasons, 
has all but gone out of use. 
