. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. FirTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES Of course, with a 2-inch space under tlie bottom-bars the bees would build down, sometimes even as eai'ly as dandelion bloom. Before that time I shove under the bottom-bars a bottom-rack. As material for a rack there are two pieces 18 x 1 X %, and 21 pieces 10% x % x 3/16. The little pieces ai'e nailed upon the %-inch sides of the two larger pieces, ladder-fashion, with ^.-o-inch space between each two strips. The strips are allowed to project over at each side about an Fig. 14—Wagonload of bees. I value this bottom-rack hi
. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. FirTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES Of course, with a 2-inch space under tlie bottom-bars the bees would build down, sometimes even as eai'ly as dandelion bloom. Before that time I shove under the bottom-bars a bottom-rack. As material for a rack there are two pieces 18 x 1 X %, and 21 pieces 10% x % x 3/16. The little pieces ai'e nailed upon the %-inch sides of the two larger pieces, ladder-fashion, with ^.-o-inch space between each two strips. The strips are allowed to project over at each side about an Fig. 14—Wagonload of bees. I value this bottom-rack highly. It prevents building down, and at the same time gives the bees nearly the full benefit of the deep space, preventing overheating in hot weather, thus serv- ing as no small factor in the prevention of swarming. It also saves the labor of lifting the hive off the bottom-board to re- verse the bottom-board and then lifting the hive back again, spring and fall. Instead of being made in the way described, a board 10% inches long may be split up irregularly and used for the cross-pieces. Such a bottom rack is shown at Fig. 12. ENTRANCE BLOCK. Now for that entrance-block. Formerly I made it heavy CFig. 13), but now it is thin, Vg inch or go tbiek, 13 inches long. 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 Miller, C. C. (Charles C. ), 1831-1920. Medina, Ohio : A. I. Root Co.
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