. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. Fig. 43.—Screw-on Leg for Beehive, honey, travelling crate now buy these plinths separately from Mr. Edward J. Burt, of Stroud Road, Gloucester. Legs (fig. 43) which can be screwed to any beehive may similarly be bought sepa- rately. Packing Bees for Travelling by Road or Rail. Tn packing bees to travel by road or rail, it is necessary to take care that the combs are not too heavily stored with honey, particularly in hot weather, as otherwise only a horr
. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. Fig. 43.—Screw-on Leg for Beehive, honey, travelling crate now buy these plinths separately from Mr. Edward J. Burt, of Stroud Road, Gloucester. Legs (fig. 43) which can be screwed to any beehive may similarly be bought sepa- rately. Packing Bees for Travelling by Road or Rail. Tn packing bees to travel by road or rail, it is necessary to take care that the combs are not too heavily stored with honey, particularly in hot weather, as otherwise only a horrible mixture of dead bees, broken combs, and all lying in a mass at the bottom of the or hive, is likely to arrive at the journey's end. In packing straw skeps for a journey, several thin pointed sticks (such as gardeners use for staking carnations and other tall growing flowers to) should be stuck right through the skeps in various directions three or four days before the bees are to be dispatched. The bees will then fasten the combs securely to these sticks which have been thrust through them, and the combs will be better held in place. The straw skep should then be turned bottom upwards, and two thicknesses of strong gauze or muslin tied over its bottom (now uppermost), and in this position (bottom uppermost) it should travel. Bees, when forcibly confined to their hives in this way, are thrown into such a state of excitement that the tempera- ture of the hive is raised immediately, and unless abund- ance of air were admitted the bees would be suffocated. AA'hen stocks of bees on bar-frames are to be sent by road or rail a wooden frame covered with perforated zinc or fine mesh wire gauze must be screwed over the top of the hive as shown in fig. 44, and a piece of perforated zinc or wire gauze must also C E. Fij,'. 44. -Hive of Bees prepared for Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabi
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