. 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. iiiv^p:s, evolution or. 253 IITVES, EVOLUTION OF. idea of handling one comb at a time, and by this means to get a far better coiicei»tion of what was going on inside tlie hive, lluber extended this idea by his improvement, Fig. 1, which came very near to the lianging movable frame invented Ijy Langstrotii six- ty years later. To Iluber belongs the credit of inventing liives with movaljle frames*, and it was by Examining the illustrat
. 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. iiiv^p:s, evolution or. 253 IITVES, EVOLUTION OF. idea of handling one comb at a time, and by this means to get a far better coiicei»tion of what was going on inside tlie hive, lluber extended this idea by his improvement, Fig. 1, which came very near to the lianging movable frame invented Ijy Langstrotii six- ty years later. To Iluber belongs the credit of inventing liives with movaljle frames*, and it was by Examining the illustrations of Huber's hive makes evident he had a clear idea of what was required in a hive for practical purposes. Fig. S shows how he increased his apiary by artilicial means. In this case he divided a strong colony by slipping a board between the frames, thereby splitting it in two. Ilis plan of providing a part of each frame for surphis honey is FIG. 2.—HUBEK's leaf hive, 1789.—from CHEsniKE. the use of these that he was able to make the discoveries in apiculture which so aston- ished and delighted the scientific world. Huber invented these hives about 1789, or perhaps a little earlier. Fig. 2. It has been contended by some writers that Ruber's hive was not practical; but some of the most It is very evident from this that TTuber in- vented some of the principal features of our movable-comb hives. The Ileddon and Bingham hives are on the Huber plan. About 1819 Mr. Robert Kerr, of Stevvait Town, Scotland, invented a bar liive of con- siderable merit, shown in Fig. 4. This hive. 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), 1862-1953. Medina, Ohio, The A. I. Root Company
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