Gleanings in bee culture . th en-tire closed ends could not be made to fit thehives already in use. In the mean time ]Mr. Elwood informed usthat Mr. Julius Hoffman, of Canajohaxie, , was using a hanging frame with semi-closed ends that could be used satisfactorilyin any Langstroth hive having rabbets to support the top-bars projecting beyond theend-bars of a frame. Naturally we called onthat gentleman. He very kindly showed usthe frame that he was using. He made noclaims to having made any particular inven-tion—modestly acknowledged that he hadborrowed some ideas of Uzierzon, his oldteache
Gleanings in bee culture . th en-tire closed ends could not be made to fit thehives already in use. In the mean time ]Mr. Elwood informed usthat Mr. Julius Hoffman, of Canajohaxie, , was using a hanging frame with semi-closed ends that could be used satisfactorilyin any Langstroth hive having rabbets to support the top-bars projecting beyond theend-bars of a frame. Naturally we called onthat gentleman. He very kindly showed usthe frame that he was using. He made noclaims to having made any particular inven-tion—modestly acknowledged that he hadborrowed some ideas of Uzierzon, his oldteacher, and Berlepsch; in fact, he told ushow he began using the Berlepsch frame asdescribed and illustrated on page 534 of ourMay 15th issue for 1905; but as it was adapt-ed for use in the German side-opening hiveshe was not long in discovering that he wouldhave to use a hive of the top-opening doing so he was compelled to modify ma-terially the frame to such an extent thatthere was very little left of the JULIUS HOFFMAN. It was this frame as Mr. Hoffman used itthat the writer saw in use at his apiaries, andhe had at the time something like 700 colo-nies on them. He was a very successful bee-keeper, made money at keeping bees, andon the occasion of our visit he showed howhe could save time by picking up the framesin twos and threes; how. in fact, he couldhandle a brood-nest split up in halves orthirds. As to killing bees and the frames be-ing glued fast, he pxoved that neither chargewas sustained when rightly handled. So im-pressed were we with the fact that more col-onies could be handled on them in a giventime that we adopted them in our yards. 776 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, June 1 How they were subsequently adopted bythousands of others is a matter of history. We found Mr. Hoffman to be a man ex-ceptionally modest, claiming no particulardistinction as an inventor, but insisting thathe had made only a modification of Ber-lepschs frame in order that he might u
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