. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 2=- The exhibit was not entirely without hives with moveable combs, there being one hive of about a foot cube, having eight bottomless frames with stout wire ends and triangular comb- guides. Each frame bar was grooved on one side for about four inches, to permit of bees passing to the supers. Some frames were on view, as filled by the bees, and they were very nearly completed. "Bottomless. frames we believe to be the correct thing, but the public will not yet believe in them ; but iron ends in the coldest parts of the hive would ap-
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 2=- The exhibit was not entirely without hives with moveable combs, there being one hive of about a foot cube, having eight bottomless frames with stout wire ends and triangular comb- guides. Each frame bar was grooved on one side for about four inches, to permit of bees passing to the supers. Some frames were on view, as filled by the bees, and they were very nearly completed. "Bottomless. frames we believe to be the correct thing, but the public will not yet believe in them ; but iron ends in the coldest parts of the hive would ap- pear to be too likely to cause condensation and mouldiness, and we would therefore avoid them. A hive, about the same size, called the Best- horn hive, had a peculiar arrangement of frames (bottomless as before), the ends being fitted with angle irons, extending about 2i ins. each way, as shown in engraving in previous column. In the front and back of the hive grooves were cut to receive the iron ends a, such grooves being covered \>j stout zinc, nearly three inches wide, nailed over them, and so arranged that the iron slid behind while the wood rested upon it (the zinc). The quilt was not in use. Here, again, the presence of metal in the coldest parts of the hive would appear objectionable, as on so large a surface as the zinc presented, viz., seventy-two square inches, condensation would go on rapidly, and in cold weather the floor- board would be very wet. Such mistakes in hive-building militate greatly against the gen- eral adoption of the bar-frame principle, as from the evils that are sure to arise they receive condemnation at the outset, and a ban is laid upon them that it will take years to remove. We were very glad to see that sectional supers are in use in France, and that they are effectually guarded by the oblong queen- and-drone excluding zinc or iron, similar to that which we have of late introduced here. The method there adopted is to en- close three top bars
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