. 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. KNTKANCES PROPERLY CONTRACTED FOK WINTER Tlie accompanying illustrations will show the modern Dovetailed and Danzenbaker alighting-boards having cleats nailed on. DETACHABLE ALIGHTING-BOAKD AND HOW IT MAY BE U^ED TO VARY THE SIZE OP^ THE ENTRANCE. them permanently. When the board is I pulled out entirely it gives an entrance li I inches deep by the width of the hive. When i the plain side is inserted, the entrance is I reduced to 8 b
. 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. KNTKANCES PROPERLY CONTRACTED FOK WINTER Tlie accompanying illustrations will show the modern Dovetailed and Danzenbaker alighting-boards having cleats nailed on. DETACHABLE ALIGHTING-BOAKD AND HOW IT MAY BE U^ED TO VARY THE SIZE OP^ THE ENTRANCE. them permanently. When the board is I pulled out entirely it gives an entrance li I inches deep by the width of the hive. When i the plain side is inserted, the entrance is I reduced to 8 by i inch; and this may be fur-1 ther reduced, if necessity requires it, by | putting in a i-inch strip of wood of sufficient I length to bring the entrance down to the ! point required. i PLURAL ENTRANCES AND SWARM CONTROL. While it is true that a plurality of entrances ' may be a detriment in a brood-chamber, ' it does not necessarily hold good during the ' honey season when the hive is tiered up two or three stories high. It then becomes '. difficult, and wasteful of bee eneigy that might be better employed, to ventilate the | whole hive from one entrance, however large ' it is in the lower story, for the bees have to ' maintain a current of cold air rushing in, and another going out at the same aperture. If queen-excluders are used the case is made worse. It almost goes without saying, that, during the period in which the honey is evaporated while in the combs, there ought to be more than one entrance to the hive— at least two, and, during very hot weather, more, one to each btory, with the cover or roof slightly raised at the back to furnish additional means for the fetid air to escape at the top of the hive. It is said by those who have tried th's method of air control that it is a great pre- ventive of swarming, and this looks reason- able; for the brood-chamber is far crowded, since the field workers arrive and depart from the upper entrance to a great extent, sa
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