. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. horizontal sect/om Fig. 9. thereby practically giving them each a base of tiro inches which effectually prevents rocking of the combs, except under very extraordinary conditions. By reference to fig. 3, it will be seen that the top bars of the frames rest on narrow runners, so called because they (the frames) may be slid along them, it will also appear that the runners, being narrow, offer little oppor- tunity for crushing bees: and here we musi point out a serious defect in many hives. il Las been urged, with more bombast than truth, that
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. horizontal sect/om Fig. 9. thereby practically giving them each a base of tiro inches which effectually prevents rocking of the combs, except under very extraordinary conditions. By reference to fig. 3, it will be seen that the top bars of the frames rest on narrow runners, so called because they (the frames) may be slid along them, it will also appear that the runners, being narrow, offer little oppor- tunity for crushing bees: and here we musi point out a serious defect in many hives. il Las been urged, with more bombast than truth, that zinc runners prevent the crushing of bees, and propolization hy them ; but in the first instance we see little difference between crushing a bee on a |-inch plane surface, and wa&3ssasi255iS3^aEt>"r":-j--ffi;i; â â ,. J'"IG. cutting it in half on a knife edge such as the zinc presents, except on the score of cruelty, in which case the crushing is the more merciful. But it happens that between the said ' runners' and the outer cases a, fig. 2 and 3, there are vacancies, as will appear under the ends of the frames, as at b, in fig. 2, more plainly seen in fig. 3 ; and it will be well to note that in all hives which have not the widened ends as in fig. 2 (or some modification of them) resting ox the runners, the channel b affords the most easy and direct means for the escape of the heat from the bees clustering in such hives; and when the said runners are made of zinc their conductivity of heat, and the probability of dysentery in winter, are greatly increased.* In our hive of 1875, an improvement in the dummy was made that gave greater economy of space in the hive's interior, whereby, instead of a removeable block or dummy frame, a means was applied, whereby the inner side of the hive, by a slight mechanical arrangement, fell outward against the outer side of the hive, and gave the lateral space required for the easy removal of the combs, as in B, fig
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