. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. our calling ; a book which every bee-keoper may welcome as a fit expoiientof thescieiice which gives such pleasure to all who are en- gaeed in it. O. Clute. Keokuk, Iowa, 30th May, 1878. Peculiar Sliding Bottom-Board. Friend Gordon has sent us the following description of his detached, sliding bottom- board : It is composed of 5 pieces, viz : One cen- tral piece, numbered "3" in the drawing ; tivo side pieces, uumbered "land 2;" and two battens, numbered "4 and .5;" the fronts of 1, 2. 3 and 4, are beveled back to make th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. our calling ; a book which every bee-keoper may welcome as a fit expoiientof thescieiice which gives such pleasure to all who are en- gaeed in it. O. Clute. Keokuk, Iowa, 30th May, 1878. Peculiar Sliding Bottom-Board. Friend Gordon has sent us the following description of his detached, sliding bottom- board : It is composed of 5 pieces, viz : One cen- tral piece, numbered "3" in the drawing ; tivo side pieces, uumbered "land 2;" and two battens, numbered "4 and .5;" the fronts of 1, 2. 3 and 4, are beveled back to make the ascent easy ; and number 3, (the central piece,) is cut slopingly, beginning on the short side at 183^ inches from rear end, and making it as long on the long side as the piece will allow. Thus you will perceive,/rom the length of my hive, that when the hive is pushed back even with "simplicity hive," to which we have very serious objections. At all events, friend Gordon is entitled to credit for working out the simple arrangement. The two slides, as shown on another page, in connection with the new Langstroth hive, for controling the entrance is a much superior arrangement. 1^ California will ship only extracted honey hereafter, the freight and break- age being so much as to make it mi- protttable. This leaves the production of comb honey to the Eastern and Mid- dle States. They ask 10 cents per pound for extracted honey in San Francisco, and as it costs 3 cents per pound to bring it to Chicago, that fixes the price, in bulk, at 13 cents Detached Sliding Bottom-Board. the rear end of bottom board, all entrance to the hive becomes closed ; and as you draw the hive forward, the entrance-way gradually enlarges, until, when the hive is drawn forward to the end of the side pieces, you have an entrance-way of 10J^x% inches. This does away with entrance blocks, and all cuts into body of hive, for purpose of entrance, which 1 regard as quite objection- able. We have
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