. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. HIVE-MAKING. 128 HIVE-MAKING. AVHAT TO COVER FRAMES WITH. This is a very important matter, and one that be carefully attended to, or there will be no end of " ; If the bees get up under the cover they will daub the whole inside with propolis, waxing all joints and crevic
. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. HIVE-MAKING. 128 HIVE-MAKING. AVHAT TO COVER FRAMES WITH. This is a very important matter, and one that be carefully attended to, or there will be no end of " ; If the bees get up under the cover they will daub the whole inside with propolis, waxing all joints and crevices, and making it almost impossi- ble to lift the cover without jarring and en- raging them. They will also use this space for a loafing-room, if no surplus boxes are on, when we want every bee down amid the brood-combs. Worst of all, when the cover is replaced, bees will be sure to be in the joints, where they will get crushed; and when you have to kill bees in opening and closing your hives, you will very soon dis- cover that there is something radically wrong somewhere. Cloth sheets and quilts have been used for the past few years, and in many respects they are far ahead of the honey-boards formerly used. For the past two years I have recommended and used enameled cloth, with a strip of tin folded in the ends. This has given excellent satis- faction, but two faults have developed with its use. In time, it gets soft by the damp- ness of the hive, and then the bees gnaw holes in it as they do in the duck. The next is. that it is hard to make it stay in its place and perfectly close the top of the hive, un- j less we use the tin ends mentioned; with these it can not be folded up so as to cover ' a smaller colony, and it is awkward to use with the division - boards now so generally employed. I have just now (March, 1879) devised the mat shown MAT FOR COVERING THE FRAMES. The great beauty of it is, that while it can not shrink so as to let the bees out at the ends or side
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