. A dictionary of practical apiculture. Bees. PKACTICAL APICULTUEE. 27. A more appropriate name for these would be metal arms. Metal arms Lave been constructed in various ways—of wire and of sheet tin. The usual way is to make them of tin, and they are so formed that they may be folded round the corner of the frame so as to hold firmly and present two thin edges by which they rest upon the bearers or rabbets. The advantage of metal corners is that the bees cannot fasten the frames to the rabbets with propolis. The frames are therefore easily set free for ex- amination and do not require to be
. A dictionary of practical apiculture. Bees. PKACTICAL APICULTUEE. 27. A more appropriate name for these would be metal arms. Metal arms Lave been constructed in various ways—of wire and of sheet tin. The usual way is to make them of tin, and they are so formed that they may be folded round the corner of the frame so as to hold firmly and present two thin edges by which they rest upon the bearers or rabbets. The advantage of metal corners is that the bees cannot fasten the frames to the rabbets with propolis. The frames are therefore easily set free for ex- amination and do not require to be pried loose. The disadvan- tages are that the frames move about very easily when the hive is carried. Some very able bee-keepers do not like them on this account. Cover Board.—Honey board. Crate.—A skeleton box for holding sections either on the hive or on their way to market. Cross.—a. Irritable; easily made angry. Cross.—n. When two races or breeds are bred together the progeny is said to be a cross. See Hybrid. Cl*OSS-Mated.—A queen of any breed which has met a drone of another breed may be said to be cross-mated. This term is greatly to be preferred to the word "impurely" mated, which really has no meaning whatever. Cross Sticks.—Sticks, or spleets as they are sometimes called, which are placed in box and straw hives to support the combs. Crown Board.—Honey board. Cry Back.—It is a curious fact, well known to breeders of the higher animals, that the effect of a cross will frequently disap- pear for several generations and then appear again in a very marked degree. This principle is known to physicians as Atavism (q. v.), and amongst breeders of stock such progeny is said to "cry back,"—a term derived from a well known hunting expression. It is therefore never safe to breed from two cross- bred animals. Crossing between pure bred animals is per- missible when we intend to use the cross itself or when we intend to breed from it by matin
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