. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 1,1885.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 83 being reversed at -will and that without having recourse to any additional metal attachment. Personally, I object to metal fittings attached to any- thing inside the hive itself. Such metal fittings must seriously interfere with the warmth of the hive during cold weather. An illustration of the frames belonging to the '83' hive may assist in conveying a proper idea as to the par- ticular feature alluded A standard sized frame without projecting top has brackets fixed on the frame ends, as at
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 1,1885.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 83 being reversed at -will and that without having recourse to any additional metal attachment. Personally, I object to metal fittings attached to any- thing inside the hive itself. Such metal fittings must seriously interfere with the warmth of the hive during cold weather. An illustration of the frames belonging to the '83' hive may assist in conveying a proper idea as to the par- ticular feature alluded A standard sized frame without projecting top has brackets fixed on the frame ends, as at A and D. The brackets are intended to rest on inner sides of hive correspondingly shallower than the inner sides of an ordinary frame hive. It is claimed for this form of frame, that the quilt lying close to the frames from A to B. and C. to D., as well as over the top, the heat of the cluster is better retained from circulating all over the hive, the bees having, as it were, a good tight roof overhead and some distance down the sides equally confined. Now all that is needed to make these frames reversible is to shift the position of the brackets to the centres of frame ends and make the inner walls half the depth of the usual hive, and we have a hive with reversible frames —better calculated to retain the natural warmth of the stock than would be the case with frames such as are in common use.—J. It. W. Hole, Tarrington. MAKING A SOLUTION OF SUGAR WITHOUT BOILING. Perhaps the following simple plan of making a solution of sugar without boiling may not be known to all your readers: Put the required quantity of water into a jug or jar, or other deep vessel, and hang the sugar in a piece of muslin, so that it is just under the surface of the water. By trying this plan with a tumbler of water, the rationale of it is at once seen. Streams of dense solution descend to the bottom of the glass, displacing water which, in its turn, becomes saturated and sinks. The same plan is the q
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