. 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. COMB HONEY. COMB HONEY. cap and cany it below just the minute you commence work with them. Drive them down with smoke, then get out your honey. The engraving below gives a very good idea of the sections we use and recommend. They are 4i inches square, and 11 inches thick. I prefer this size, becau
. 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. COMB HONEY. COMB HONEY. cap and cany it below just the minute you commence work with them. Drive them down with smoke, then get out your honey. The engraving below gives a very good idea of the sections we use and recommend. They are 4i inches square, and 11 inches thick. I prefer this size, because they con- tain just about 1 lb. of honey, and 8 of them just till a Langstroth frame. While these have commanded 2oc per lb. at wholesale, sections that held from H to 2 lbs. have on- ly brought from 20 to 22c. This is too great a difference to lose, so long as the bees will put it in one shape just as well as the oth- er. We have tried a great variety of sizes, GETTING BEES OUT OF BOXES, OR OFF FROM COMB HONEY. I presume not many of the friends will have honey stored in the old-fashioned box- es, with glass in the ends ; but if they should do so, it is sometimes quite desirable to know how to get the bees out quickly. We sometimes take a whole case of sections from a hive at once, and wish to get the bees all out without going to the trouble of break- ing each section loose from the waxing that the bees put on it. With the crate that goes under the half-story cover, this is often quite desirable. The old-fashioned way of doing this was to drive out as many bees as. A SECTION BOX FILLED WITH HONEY, but the bees seem somewhat loth to store honey in any tiling very much less in size ; some, 2i inches in size, were very well filled, but it was only after they had filled all the larger ones placed in the same hive. Of course, you will be methodical enough to have your shipping-case by your side when removing sections, that you may put them in their places as fast as they are rem
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