. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. i52 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. •with very little distm-bance to the bees ; all annoj'auce from the removal being prevented by having an assistant at hand to whiff a little tobacco into the hive at the moment of removal. The guide-comb must be fixed in hne with and upon the centre of the bar. 1350. The bar-hive system is strongly recommended by Dr. Bevan, and perfected by Mr. Golding. It usually consists of a pair of boxes ; the lower one being the stoch-liive, or usual residence o
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. i52 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. •with very little distm-bance to the bees ; all annoj'auce from the removal being prevented by having an assistant at hand to whiff a little tobacco into the hive at the moment of removal. The guide-comb must be fixed in hne with and upon the centre of the bar. 1350. The bar-hive system is strongly recommended by Dr. Bevan, and perfected by Mr. Golding. It usually consists of a pair of boxes ; the lower one being the stoch-liive, or usual residence of the family, and breeding-place of the queen or mother-bee, and which need rarely be disturbed. The other is for the purpose of affording the bees occasional additional storing-room, and is termed the super-hire; its place being over the other. The boxes are]of 1-inch wood, 11| inches square withinside. The stock-hive is in inside height,. including the bars, 8g inches. Making deduction for the bars, these dimen- sion gives a shallow hive, but adapted for the health of the bees. It is evident that in the use of bars the bees are more constrained in their building operations than where they are free to follow their own inclinations as to the position and mode of communication from comb to comb. In the Amateur's Bar-hive this dilemma is met by a passage from one part of the hive to another. For the space of two inches, at each extremity of the upper side of the bars, they are cut out horizontally through half their thickness. In this way a gallery is formed all around the upper part of the dwelhng, not only as a means of equal ventilation and temperature, but as offering facility in the removal of the bars. A cover nearly an inch thick, clamped at the ends, and projecting on all sides half an inch, is fixed down close over the bars with two or three long screws. Our engraving shows the cover lifted above its box, in order to exemplify the arrangements thus described. 1351. A g
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