. The bee-keepers' guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. 120 Early Movable Comb Hives. Langstroth hive nor a practical one. In 1851 this hive (Fig. 35) was improved (?). Well does Neighbour say in his valuable hand-book, "This invention was of no avail to ; Fig. Munn's Improved Hive. M. DeBeauvoys, of France, in 1847, and Schmidt, of Ger- many, in 1851, invented movable-comb hives. The frames were tight-fitting, and, of course, not practical. Dzierzon adopted the bar hive in 1838. In this hive each comb had to be cut loose as it was removed. THE LANGSTROTH HIVE. In 18
. The bee-keepers' guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. 120 Early Movable Comb Hives. Langstroth hive nor a practical one. In 1851 this hive (Fig. 35) was improved (?). Well does Neighbour say in his valuable hand-book, "This invention was of no avail to ; Fig. Munn's Improved Hive. M. DeBeauvoys, of France, in 1847, and Schmidt, of Ger- many, in 1851, invented movable-comb hives. The frames were tight-fitting, and, of course, not practical. Dzierzon adopted the bar hive in 1838. In this hive each comb had to be cut loose as it was removed. THE LANGSTROTH HIVE. In 1851, our own Langstroth, without any knowledge of what foreign apiarian inventors' had done, save what he could find in Huber, and edition 1838 of Bevan, invented the hive (Fig. 36) now in common use among the advanced apiarists of America. It is this hive, the greatest apiarian invention ever made, that has placed American apiculture in advance of that of all other countries. What practical bee-keeper of America could agree with H. Hamet, edition 1861, p. 166, who, in speaking of the DeBeauvoys' hive, says that the im-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Albert John, 1842- [from old catalog]. Lansing, Mich. [Columbus, Ohio, Printed by Myers bros. ]
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