. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. FRAMES, TO MANFUL ATE. 217 FRAMES, TO ABOUT TO INSERT A DANZENHAKER FRAME INTO THE PLACE FROM AVIIICH IT CAME. the distances at wide and narrow spaces. There is no need to instruct the beginner just how far to space combs, and there is no flnding the apiary afterward, with auy of the combs spaced so far apart that spurs of comb are built wliere they ought not to be. With the regular Hoffman frames the spaces must necessa
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. FRAMES, TO MANFUL ATE. 217 FRAMES, TO ABOUT TO INSERT A DANZENHAKER FRAME INTO THE PLACE FROM AVIIICH IT CAME. the distances at wide and narrow spaces. There is no need to instruct the beginner just how far to space combs, and there is no flnding the apiary afterward, with auy of the combs spaced so far apart that spurs of comb are built wliere they ought not to be. With the regular Hoffman frames the spaces must necessarily be exact, so the combs may have a fixed and uniform thick- ness; and we do not liesitate to say that one can alternate them just as well as or better than he can many of the loose or unspaced frames. We will explain. Space the loose frames during the honey-harvest, anywhere from If to U or even If inches from center to center, and then, after the honey-harvest, try to alternate them with other frames spaced a little closer, and see where you are. You may say you can space frames near enough right. Although we have visited many large apiaries, we seldom see a loose- frame apiary spaced correctly. To go back, we will replace the follower, and crowd the frames tight together. If there are any bees on tlie tops of the frames, a whiff of smoke will usually drive them down and then the cover is replaced with a sliding motion, which we have already ex- plained. Perhaps from the description about ma- nipulating the hive with Hoffman frames, it may appear like a long operation; it is a very short one. Mr. Hoff ma n said he could handle nearly double the number of colonies on his frame that he coidd on any loose frame; and we will add right here that he used loose frames for years, until necessity, the mother of invention, caused him to bring out this style. There is another good feature; namely, by removing two or three frames in a trio, the rest of the combs in the hive need not b
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