. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. For the American Bee Journal. Description of the Hives I use. BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. From the numerous letters I get, asking for a description of the hives I use, I think I cannot please the readers of the American Bee Journal better than to describe it. In the first place I have what I call an emergency hive, for use at all times when I do not wish to permanently locate a colony, and for queen rearing. This is simply a box made of inch lum- ber without bottom or top, 12 inches wide, 12 inches deep and 13* inches long inside, with front and rear rabbeted
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. For the American Bee Journal. Description of the Hives I use. BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. From the numerous letters I get, asking for a description of the hives I use, I think I cannot please the readers of the American Bee Journal better than to describe it. In the first place I have what I call an emergency hive, for use at all times when I do not wish to permanently locate a colony, and for queen rearing. This is simply a box made of inch lum- ber without bottom or top, 12 inches wide, 12 inches deep and 13* inches long inside, with front and rear rabbeted for frames. The bottom board is 15ix 18 with lix2 scantling nailed to it to keep from warping and to sit on the ground. The top is made like a sugar box cover, to slip over the hive. This holds 9 Gallup frames, or any number less than 9 can be used, in connection with the division boards described in the Journal for Feb. If I have a swarm come out unex- pectedly I put them in this hive till I decide what to do with them, and if while there they build comb it is in the. Three-box Prize Case, frames just where I want it and not in the top of some old box, as it would be if I used such for that purpose. I also use such hives for rearing queens, and like them much better than a nucleus hive. Next I have the standard Gallup hive, which is a box like the above, only it is 18 inches long, instead 13*; and has a cleat nailed all around i inch from the top, for the cap to rest on, which is 8 inches high. The bottom board is the same as for the other, varying in size of CQiirse to fit hive. I use, in all my hives, an entrance finch high, and as long as the brood chamber, cut from the bottom of the front of the hive, which is en- larged or contracted by means of entrance blocks which are an inch square, of the desired length, and are beveled at one end back 1$ inches, so as to guide the bees to the entrance. I have always preferred this to moving the hive backwards and forwards on the bo
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