. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. Fig. 56. EKE OF CHAS. SORIA. (Prom Hamet.). Fig. 57. DIVIDING HIVE OF JONAS DE GELIEU. (From Hamet.) hive divisible into only two parts. Oettl, tow-irds the middle of the nineteenth century, made a straw hive divided into three vertical parts. The main advantage of these liives re- sides in the facility of dividing them for artificial swarming. But as this method of making artificial swarms is defective, as will be shown further (iYO), and as all these con- trivances did not allow a close study of the habits of the bee, or permit the needed manipul
. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. Fig. 56. EKE OF CHAS. SORIA. (Prom Hamet.). Fig. 57. DIVIDING HIVE OF JONAS DE GELIEU. (From Hamet.) hive divisible into only two parts. Oettl, tow-irds the middle of the nineteenth century, made a straw hive divided into three vertical parts. The main advantage of these liives re- sides in the facility of dividing them for artificial swarming. But as this method of making artificial swarms is defective, as will be shown further (iYO), and as all these con- trivances did not allow a close study of the habits of the bee, or permit the needed manipulations, it became neoessai'y to invent a hive whose evei-y comb, and every part, the Apiarist could promptly and easily control; a hive which, to employ the forcible expression of Mr. Hamet, could "se demontcr comme un jeu dc mcirioneltes''; (be taken to pieces like a puppet-show).. 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 Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, Charles, 1817-1902; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. : Dadant
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