. Gleanings in bee culture . hings being etjual, the stronger it can bemade. Another advantage in favor of thedouble-tier case is that it allows the manu-facturer to use the same size of covers andbottoms, and the same size of glass that heuses in the 12-lb. size, single-tier. The dis-advantage of the double-tier cases is thatthey do not stack uj) quite as well. This isan advantage in another way—namely, thatit prevents ])lacing too great a weight onthe case that may be at the bottom. How-ever, the slightly deeper carton, as will beshown, will largely overcome this. In this issue , wh
. Gleanings in bee culture . hings being etjual, the stronger it can bemade. Another advantage in favor of thedouble-tier case is that it allows the manu-facturer to use the same size of covers andbottoms, and the same size of glass that heuses in the 12-lb. size, single-tier. The dis-advantage of the double-tier cases is thatthey do not stack uj) quite as well. This isan advantage in another way—namely, thatit prevents ])lacing too great a weight onthe case that may be at the bottom. How-ever, the slightly deeper carton, as will beshown, will largely overcome this. In this issue , who has foryears used a 24-1 b. sec-tion-case, declares infavor of the double-tier case; and it is ouropinion that, inas-much as this case isstronger, and costs nomore than the samecapacity of single-tier, it should be usedby the trade general-ly- It will be noticedf u r t h e r that theTwentieth - centurycases are made heavi-er. The ends arethicker; the sliding-cover feature is aban-doned; and it is found that the scheme of. FIG. 4. 362 Gleanings in Bee Cuture n-iiling the cover on the case stiffens it ma-terially. In Fig. 5 it will be observed thatwhere the covers are in two or three piecesthey are halved together. This is very im-portant; because if there is any shrinkage itwill prevent small insects such as ants fromgetting into the sections.
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