. The book of bee-keeping : a practical and complete manual on the proper management of bees ... Bees; Bee culture. 28 THE BOOK OF Skep Rack with Roof, for use in Straw Skep. the old-fashioned bee-keeping becomes merged into the modem— a sort of connecting link—we illustrate a super adapted to skeps for the production of comb honey in a form equal to that pro- duced in a bar-frame hive. For this rack we took First Prize at the Windsor Show of the Berks Bee-keepers' Association, 1887. With a straw skep having only a hole in the top, an ordinary rack of " sections" (par.
. The book of bee-keeping : a practical and complete manual on the proper management of bees ... Bees; Bee culture. 28 THE BOOK OF Skep Rack with Roof, for use in Straw Skep. the old-fashioned bee-keeping becomes merged into the modem— a sort of connecting link—we illustrate a super adapted to skeps for the production of comb honey in a form equal to that pro- duced in a bar-frame hive. For this rack we took First Prize at the Windsor Show of the Berks Bee-keepers' Association, 1887. With a straw skep having only a hole in the top, an ordinary rack of " sections" (par. 52) could not be used; therefore, it has a bottom (not shown in the en- graving), with a hole to correspond to the one in the skep. It also has a roof (r), to protect the sec- tions from the weather. We took forty-nine lib. sec- tions from one skep by means of these —using two," tiered" up (see paragraph on " Tiering"). The arrangement of sections in it is precisely the same as in a rack for a frame-hive. 51. Frame Hive Super.—The accompanying illustration will give a good idea as to the form adopted in a super, or, as it is called, a rack or crate, for a bar- frame hive. This consists of a square box without top or bottom, and of sufficient size to accom- modate twenty-one lib. sections (T, T, T). A space of iin. between the bottom of the sections and the top bar of the frames, for the passage of the bees, is called the " bee - space " ; if this space is more than that measurement, the bees will build combs between, and so very firmly fix the sections to the tops of the frames, and if it is less, they will glue them with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Webster, W. B. London : L. U. Gill
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