. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. DOUBLE-TIEK AVIDE FRAME. be impracticable to show all of these differ- ent devices; but for the sake of illustrating some principles it may be well to mention some of those that are used most largely. What was known as the double-tier AAide frame was perhaps the first device for hold- ing sections in the hive. This consisted of a frame of the same depth and length as the ordinary brood-frame,but of the same width as the section, as s
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. DOUBLE-TIEK AVIDE FRAME. be impracticable to show all of these differ- ent devices; but for the sake of illustrating some principles it may be well to mention some of those that are used most largely. What was known as the double-tier AAide frame was perhaps the first device for hold- ing sections in the hive. This consisted of a frame of the same depth and length as the ordinary brood-frame,but of the same width as the section, as sho'OTi in the illustration preceding. This was used very largely at one time; but in the comse of time it was discovered that it had several objectionaljle features. First, a whole hiveful of them gave the bees too much capacity to start on ; and, as a consequence, this discouraged them from beginning work. Second, they. DOOLITTLE'S SINGLE-TIEK WIDE FKAJIES. did not permit of tiering up to any degree of advantage. Third, it was not conven- ient to get them out of the hive, and more inconvenient still to get the sections out of the wide frames. For these reasons wide frames, or crates holding only oue tier of sec- tions, were adopted. The Doolittle surplus arrangement con- sists of a series of single-tier wide frames having no projections to the top-bars, al- though shallow wide frames have lieen made with such projections. Both the single-tier and double-tier shown had tin separators nailed on one side of each wide frame ; but in the arrangement shown below there is no provision for a separator. As the engraving shows, this is simply a shallow tray of the same depth as the section, plus a bee-si ace. and is divided off by trans- verse partiticns—ihese very j artiticns pre- venting, of course, the use of separators; but those who did use this style of crate, and use it still, claim they can get along witl.'out sep- arators; that they have no difficulty in crat- ing for market
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