. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July L 1883.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 33" better illustrate what I mean. If square frames can be practically worked on the angle, as in Blow's hive, why not use standard frames, with bearings or shoulders about one-third of their depth from the top-bar, vide il- lustration':' To prove its practicability I purpose putting one or two hives in use at once. The plan would appear to be favourable to the working of sections at the sides near the top if sufficient space is allowed for the purpose between the frame-ends and outer case of the
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July L 1883.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 33" better illustrate what I mean. If square frames can be practically worked on the angle, as in Blow's hive, why not use standard frames, with bearings or shoulders about one-third of their depth from the top-bar, vide il- lustration':' To prove its practicability I purpose putting one or two hives in use at once. The plan would appear to be favourable to the working of sections at the sides near the top if sufficient space is allowed for the purpose between the frame-ends and outer case of the hive. A A A A is the frame hi position, B B the shoulders resting on the shallow inner sides of hive (c c). r> is one side of the outer case, which should. be hinged at the bottom so as to open outwards, as at I)1. This arrangement would admit of the frames being got at without difficulty, and facilitate the arrangement of packing for winter. It remains to be seen whether the shoulders should be fixed about one-third of the frame's depth from the top, or lower down. The position indi- cated in the above sketch appears to be most convenient. The effect of a quilt and packing over the tops and ex- posed ends of these frames would be the same as that in the frames suspended on the angles, »', e. the heat of each seam of bees woidd be retained in the upper portion of the brood-nest.âJ. R. \Y. Hole, Tarrinyton, Ledbury, THE ANGLO-CYPRIAN HIVE IN PRACTICE. I inclose, engraving of Price and Conklin's hives.* I made a pair in 1*74, as shown in Mr. Raitt's sketch. These hives in theory appear to be all that can be desired, but in practice a complete failure. The frames have a trick of toppling over in manipulation, and all the dodging in creation will not make them work satisfactorily; dirt and cuttings are not so easily got rid of as it appears. I thought I had broken them up long ago, but on asking a gentleman hi this neigh- bourhood if he remembered the Diamond frame-hives 1
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