. The American bee keeper's manual; being a practical treatise on the history and domestic economy of the honey-bee ... with the most approved methods of managing this insect through every branch of its culture ... Bees. 138 MINER S AMERICAN Here we have hives recommended more than one- quarter less in size than those that I recommend. I have had several of Dr. Bevan's hives, or such as appear in his work, engraved, and I shall lay them be- fore the reader; not that I appRp^e of them at all, but being the nearest approximation to hives in use in the United States, and, perhaps, identical with
. The American bee keeper's manual; being a practical treatise on the history and domestic economy of the honey-bee ... with the most approved methods of managing this insect through every branch of its culture ... Bees. 138 MINER S AMERICAN Here we have hives recommended more than one- quarter less in size than those that I recommend. I have had several of Dr. Bevan's hives, or such as appear in his work, engraved, and I shall lay them be- fore the reader; not that I appRp^e of them at all, but being the nearest approximation to hives in use in the United States, and, perhaps, identical with many in use in this country, I think it expedient to comment on their qualities, in order to cover the whole area of my subject, or so much of it as is BEVAN S CROSS-BAR HIVE. The above engraving represents what is termed a cross-bar hive. The object of this kind of hive is to guide the bees in their comb-building; that combs may be more regularly constructed, thus affording more brood-combs than are generally built, when the bees are left to themselves, and less irregularities in their archi- tecture. It is intended, that the bees shall construct their combs on the bars. The centre bars are placed suitably for brood-comb, and the outside bars are wider apart, and adapted to store-combs. This is all very well, provided the bees will follow these bars; but they will not. They must have one or two guide-combs. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Miner, T. B. (Thomas B. ), 1808-1878. New York, C. M. Saxton & company
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