Gleanings in bee culture . Varieties of the skep. top-bars (carriers) with comb starters areplaced in the upper story. A straw hive of peculiar shape, butadapted to the principle of the modernframe hive, is the bogenstuelper inventedby Gravenhorst, who died in 1898. Thishive contains twelve to sixteen frames, andis especially in favor in northern 3 will give the reader an idea of other modern hives are, of course,made of wood. At the convention of the German andAustrian beekeepers at Cologne in 1880there was adopted a standard measure forthe two countries,and the followings


Gleanings in bee culture . Varieties of the skep. top-bars (carriers) with comb starters areplaced in the upper story. A straw hive of peculiar shape, butadapted to the principle of the modernframe hive, is the bogenstuelper inventedby Gravenhorst, who died in 1898. Thishive contains twelve to sixteen frames, andis especially in favor in northern 3 will give the reader an idea of other modern hives are, of course,made of wood. At the convention of the German andAustrian beekeepers at Cologne in 1880there was adopted a standard measure forthe two countries,and the followingsize of frames for thebrood-room was de-clared as standard:8% inches wide and14 9/16 inches high;frames for honey-room half the height;dimensions of hive inaccordance with bee-spaces. Fig. 4 showsa standard hive fromthe rear, the door be-ing removed so thatsome of the emptyframes are visible inthe brood-room (a)and the honey-room(b). The frameshang i n rabbetedcleats in a transverse JANUARY 1, 1916 27 position; or, to un-de


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