Gleanings in bee culture . m, and that the cornersare not right angles, as in case of the or-dinary hive. Moreover, the brood-chambercase is made up of two halves, the ends ofAvhich are triangles as shown, instead ofrectangles. Now, when Mr. Anthony de-sires to look over his brood-chamber, per-haps to find the queen, he uses a clampsomewhat similar in principle to the de-vice described in Gleanings by F. , page 774, July 15, 1905. Hequickly adjusts this clamp and tips thewhole hive over without removing the coveror the super, and without disturbing theupper part of the hive at all. W
Gleanings in bee culture . m, and that the cornersare not right angles, as in case of the or-dinary hive. Moreover, the brood-chambercase is made up of two halves, the ends ofAvhich are triangles as shown, instead ofrectangles. Now, when Mr. Anthony de-sires to look over his brood-chamber, per-haps to find the queen, he uses a clampsomewhat similar in principle to the de-vice described in Gleanings by F. , page 774, July 15, 1905. Hequickly adjusts this clamp and tips thewhole hive over without removing the coveror the super, and without disturbing theupper part of the hive at all. With thehive tipped over in this position restingon the clamp, it is the work of a mo-ment to remove the lower part of thebrood-chamber case, to which the floor isattached, and lay it to one side as in Then, without prying any thing loose,the combs beginning at one side may beswung over, one by one, so that bothsides are exposed. While tlus work isbeing done, there is no danger of killing GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Selling strawljerries; the way E. B. Rood manages near Bradentown, Florida. See page 591. bees, nor sliding combs past each other sothat bees are rolled and crushed, and thusinfuriated; and, what is more noticeable,the moving of the combs is as quietly doneas the turning of the leaves in a book, andtlie bees show no tendency to bunch up onthe combs, so that, if one is looking forthe queen, there is no great mass of beescollecting at any one point, which makesit difficult to see the combs at all, and al-most impossible to locate the queen withoutusing so much smoke as to cause the beesto stampede. If desired, the bees may be brushed fromboth sides of every comb without takingthe combs out of the hive body at all—that is, without detaching them, for thereis plenty of room for the brush on eitlierside of the combs as they are swung oneby one from one side to the other. If Mr. Anthony wishes to take a combentirely out of the hive, he can do so moreeasily than
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