. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Baptist Beck, three score and ten years of age, with his bees. a damnable arrangement from which, although the honey will leak at the least attempt at removal, it beconies posible to secure almost anything but honey. So they come back to the old skep or "buc," as it is called here, a hive made of 4 boards 10 or 12 inches in width and iVz to 4 feet in height, with two sticks crossed, near the cen- ter, which are supposed to separate the brood chamber from the super, for it is there that the avidity of the honey gatherer is understood to stop,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Baptist Beck, three score and ten years of age, with his bees. a damnable arrangement from which, although the honey will leak at the least attempt at removal, it beconies posible to secure almost anything but honey. So they come back to the old skep or "buc," as it is called here, a hive made of 4 boards 10 or 12 inches in width and iVz to 4 feet in height, with two sticks crossed, near the cen- ter, which are supposed to separate the brood chamber from the super, for it is there that the avidity of the honey gatherer is understood to stop, when the time comes to remove the honey. A board at the top and a tile under the bottom, with a few holes bored on one side nea"- the bottom, for entrance, finish up the "; Do not imagine, however, that the building of such a hive is a simple matter. You must use boards of poplar, cut during the dark of the moon, else the moths will destroy your bees. On the principle that "good soups are made in old pots," an old "buc" is better than a new one, for a new one may not please the bees, while an old one has been tested. Bees are queer beings, that is why each colony makes different honey. If you figure out the differences in the bees, in the age of the "buc," the influence of the moon, the quality of the wood, you will acknowledge that beekeeping under these methods is an art. A man is courageous, indeed, who manages to keep bees under such Chinese-puzzle conditions. As for the movable-frame hive keepers, the greater number use the Layens horizontal (long-idea) hive, or the Dadant-Blatt. Others, still, use hives of their Qwn devising, high, or long, or wide, or with frames crosswise, a mixture of models which would be impossible to manage if they tried to do anything with them outside of harvesting the honey. No wonder that, often, the peasant gets more results from his "buc" than from the modern hives. Letting a Pocket i
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