. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. 150 THE BEB-HH'ES. sary to look over every part of it. The help gained by being able to handle two or three frames at a time is therefore more imaginary than real. Mr. E. E. Root, the well-known editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture, who has been the most active supporter of this frame, in reply to a correspondent who complained of the frame, in Gleanings for November 1st, 1905, page 1127, acknowledges that the Hoffman frame is unsuited to localities where much propolis is used by the bees, owing to the difficulty of separat- ing the frames when glu
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. 150 THE BEB-HH'ES. sary to look over every part of it. The help gained by being able to handle two or three frames at a time is therefore more imaginary than real. Mr. E. E. Root, the well-known editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture, who has been the most active supporter of this frame, in reply to a correspondent who complained of the frame, in Gleanings for November 1st, 1905, page 1127, acknowledges that the Hoffman frame is unsuited to localities where much propolis is used by the bees, owing to the difficulty of separat- ing the frames when glued together. Another very strong objection which has been raised against. Fig 65 HOFFMAN FRAMES. ("The A B C of Bee ;) the Hoffman frame is that it cannot be manufactured in a small shop, as it requires special tools to manufacture it. This may not have much weight with the up-to-date Apiarist, but it has been our aim to recommend the simplest and most practical implements, if effective, and we consider this ob- jection as a weighty one, when added to other objections. The main desideratum attained by the use of the Hoffman frame, namely the spacing of the combs in a practical and stable. 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 Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. , Dadant & sons
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