Archive image from page 33 of A key to successful bee-keeping. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming .. CUbiodiversity1264180 Year: 1862 ( SUCCESSFUL BEE KEEPING. xssaseen by the following, from the same pamphlet. ' The frames with their contents, may be lifted out into the ' observation frame' when- ever it is wished to examine the bees, &c., as the half-inch spaces be- tween thii bee-frames, will allow of a sufficient distance to be preserved I'ig-18 oetween the lateral
Archive image from page 33 of A key to successful bee-keeping. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming .. CUbiodiversity1264180 Year: 1862 ( SUCCESSFUL BEE KEEPING. xssaseen by the following, from the same pamphlet. ' The frames with their contents, may be lifted out into the ' observation frame' when- ever it is wished to examine the bees, &c., as the half-inch spaces be- tween thii bee-frames, will allow of a sufficient distance to be preserved I'ig-18 oetween the lateral surfaces of the perpendicular combs formed in the bee-frames, and thus permit them to lift out by each other with facility,' p. 14. Again, ' The whole interior of the hive is thus open to inspection at any moment, and a choice can be made of the combs containing the most honey, or the bee' owner enabled to trace the devastations of the honey moth.' p. 17. Still further, the hive should be so constructed as to allow of every part of the combs to be inspected at any moment, and capable of removal when requisite,' p. 20. 'We now give Mr. Langstroth's claim of movable frames : ' Second.—The use of the movable frames, A. A., fig. 4, or their equivalents, substantially as described ; also their use in combina- tion with the shallow chamber, with or without my arrangement for spare honey receptacles !' Mr. Langstroth's frames, patented in 1852, are substantially the ' oblong bar-frames' of Mr. Munn, described in 1844 ; and how his mode of using them compares with Mr. Munn's mode of using his triangular frames, described in April, 1851, as shown in the above quotations, the reader will be able to judge after consulting Mr. Langstroth's work on the Honey Bee, pp. 15, 148, 149, or ex- amining one of his hives. Munn's Divider.—On page 10 of his pai ' One of the triangular bee-frames can be can be used as a divider between any nur and thus form the box into two compartm
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