. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. HIVES, EVOLUTION OF. HIVES, EVOLUTION OF. of movable-comb frames instead of bars he would have solved the great problem of inventing a practical hive equal to all emer- gencies. Prokopovitsch, a , about 1835, in- vented and made in large numbers a mova- ble-comb hive of great merit. Fig. 5. In his own apiaries, of which he had many, were over 3CO0 of these hives in actual use. His pupils (for he established a school of h
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. HIVES, EVOLUTION OF. HIVES, EVOLUTION OF. of movable-comb frames instead of bars he would have solved the great problem of inventing a practical hive equal to all emer- gencies. Prokopovitsch, a , about 1835, in- vented and made in large numbers a mova- ble-comb hive of great merit. Fig. 5. In his own apiaries, of which he had many, were over 3CO0 of these hives in actual use. His pupils (for he established a school of hee-keeping) had many more in use. One of tlie features of this hive was the bee-space, provided by thin bars of wood on the back, sides, and ends of the hive-box. It may be noted that his surplus frames bear considerable resemlilance to our bee way sections, and that his hives were dove- the liive, all the other combs had first to be removed. Evidently his hive was far infe- rior to those we have alreadv mentioned. When he adopted frames he did not change the construction of his hives in the least. Next came Langstroth with his epoch- making movable-comb hive Mith movable roof, wiiich comljined the essential require- ments of a hive. All the coml)S in the Langstroth liive nre readily removable with- out tlie slightest annoyance either to the bee-kee[)er or the bees. Langstroth did his work so well that he left very little for future inventors to do. Many have tried to imi)rove his hive, but in most cases the so-called improvement has proven to be a backward step. The striking feature of the. KK;. 4.—THE STEWARTON HIVE. 1819; HIVE WITH GLASS STRIPS BETWEEN BARS.— FROM 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 Root, A. I. (Amos Ives), 1839-1923; Root, E. R. (Ernest Rob), 1862-
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