. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 24:9 are tacked on to form metal supports, and four pieces of tin, 2in. wide, bent neatly over the mitred corner, ensure its being waterproof. A fillet rebated to fit the super in use, fixed round the top, ^in. deep from outside shoulder, ensures fin. between the frames. Four pieces, lOgin. long and l^in. square, are rebated lin. each way, and fixed up to
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 24:9 are tacked on to form metal supports, and four pieces of tin, 2in. wide, bent neatly over the mitred corner, ensure its being waterproof. A fillet rebated to fit the super in use, fixed round the top, ^in. deep from outside shoulder, ensures fin. between the frames. Four pieces, lOgin. long and l^in. square, are rebated lin. each way, and fixed up to the angles ; the two slots for entrance are connected, and an alighting board screwed on. Tui-n it upside down to fill it with chaff, and put. Fig. 115,—BRICKELL'S CHAFF-HIVE. a piece of tarred felt over the chaff before the bottom is screwed on ; this prevents the damp from turning the chaff musty. The advantages of chaff hives made in this way are that they can be manipulated as easily as the ordinary two-story hive in the summer, and yet afford the necessary protection in ; PROVIDING SPACE ABOVE FRAMES IN WINTER. This is another expedient which many bee-keepers in cold climates have recourse to for the better wintering of their bees. The object in the first place was to provide a winter passage from comb to comb in the warmest part of the hive, and for this purpose small sticks were placed across the frames to raise the mats and chaff cushion a little; but some four years ago a Mr. Hill conceived the idea of providing a space large enough to allow of the bees clustering in it, and it was. 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 Hopkins, Isaac, 1837-1925. Auckland, N. Z.
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