. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Of course the bees glue these long edges- of contact together, and after opening the hive it is always necessary to separate each of the frames with an instrument before any work can be done. This t have found to be a great inconvenience, and I much prefer spacing frames by a device like the " ; metal end to the Hoffman method. In the hive for the Hoffman frame (the ordi- nary Langstroth hive) there is a |-in. space in the brood-chamber over the frames. This space is covered with a simple flat roof or "cover" {Jc,
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Of course the bees glue these long edges- of contact together, and after opening the hive it is always necessary to separate each of the frames with an instrument before any work can be done. This t have found to be a great inconvenience, and I much prefer spacing frames by a device like the " ; metal end to the Hoffman method. In the hive for the Hoffman frame (the ordi- nary Langstroth hive) there is a |-in. space in the brood-chamber over the frames. This space is covered with a simple flat roof or "cover" {Jc, figs. 2 and 4), or during the honey-flow with the super. The building of brace-combs being prevented by the wide thick top-bars, this i-in. space over the frames is left perfectly clear by the bees, and either " cover " or super can be simply lifted off the hive without the least trouble ; thus no quilts are required, and the top-bars of the frames are clean and free from propolis, which is never the case for long when a quilt is used over the frames. Quilts and wraps are always a troublesome and often an expensive item in the maintenance of a large apiary ; the bees are inclined to nibble through them, and they require renewing frequently ; they also harbour the wax-moth larvai nearly, if not quite, as much as the saw- cut in the top bars. If quilts could be dis- pensed with it would certainly be a great blessing. In my opin'on, one of the greatest advan- tages of a thick and wide top bar would be in the possibility of having cleaa, unpropolised top-bars, with a bee-spaca between them and the roof, and the consequent dispensing with quilts. Anything that reduces propolisation greatly facilitates manipulation. The ideal frame in this respect should hang clear by a bee-space. Fig. 2. of everything above, below, and around it. Such a frame is, of course, an impossibility, but 1 made and tried some frames in one of my hives last summer, which resembled this ideal more c
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