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Spring-catch adjustable super

Patent drawing showing a wooden bee-hive in cross-section with a slatted movable-frame brood chamber above a lower open compartment, plus a top-down view of the hive body and a separate round tubular honey box with end caps.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESJames W. Gladding · January 9, 1872

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