. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Xovcmber, lyoS. American Hm Journal taken or more or less bees will be crushed when a frame is lifted out or put back in. Some are so steady of nerve and muscle that they can move frames quite rapidly while maintaining the proper distance between end-bar and hive-wall, so that a bee is rarely injured. N'ot so others. To prevent mangling bees, some have a staple driven into the outside of each end-bar, near the bottom, which pre- vents the possibility of allowing the end-bar to strike against the hive-wall. Some will object that at least in some cases
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Xovcmber, lyoS. American Hm Journal taken or more or less bees will be crushed when a frame is lifted out or put back in. Some are so steady of nerve and muscle that they can move frames quite rapidly while maintaining the proper distance between end-bar and hive-wall, so that a bee is rarely injured. N'ot so others. To prevent mangling bees, some have a staple driven into the outside of each end-bar, near the bottom, which pre- vents the possibility of allowing the end-bar to strike against the hive-wall. Some will object that at least in some cases the jarring of the staple against the hive-wall is objectionable, as when one is looking for a queen, for a very slight amount of jarring sets the bees to running, when the finding of a queen becomes a doubtful problem. L. S. Crawshaw has a plan to avoid danger without having end-spacers on the lower ends of the end-bars. He says in the British Bee Journal: "I have devised a method bf which speed and certainty may be secured, even with the last comb and tight quarters. Slide the end-bar down the hive side; that is, allow double bee- way at one end and none at the other. This prevents sway or swing in any direction, and crushing cannot take ; Thanksgiving Day has come again, With blessings great and small. Let thoughts of gratitude o'erflow The hearts of one and all. Late Uniting of Colonies About this tiiTie of year it is a common thing to have the questions, "How shall I unite? What about queens when unit- ing?" etc. Well, the manner is not so important as it is that you unite any colony that is so weak that its living through the winter is a doubtful prob- lem. A very weak colony may be united with one that is not very weak, but yet hardly up to the mark. Two weak col- onies may be united, or more than two. Any way, so that when you are through there shall be no colony which has not enough bees to cover well at least 4 Langstroth frames, and better s
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