. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 19, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 415 Avill be chilled. The method recommended avoids this. As soon as there is a scarcity of bee flowers, the brood chamber must be lowered or robbing will take place. Having considered in detail the methods adopted for procuring extracted honey, we now turn to those comb-honey. In the there is very little bee-keeper beyond pre- the supers at the right rest. With sections the great deal depends upon requires considerable ex- saleable ones can be sideration is the sections, patterns, most of vyhich 17


. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 19, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 415 Avill be chilled. The method recommended avoids this. As soon as there is a scarcity of bee flowers, the brood chamber must be lowered or robbing will take place. Having considered in detail the methods adopted for procuring extracted honey, we now turn to those comb-honey. In the there is very little bee-keeper beyond pre- the supers at the right rest. With sections the great deal depends upon requires considerable ex- saleable ones can be sideration is the sections, patterns, most of vyhich 17), Xos. 1. 2 and 3 No. r, plain ; No. 2, and grooved for the 6 are four bee-way, above. Nos. 7, 8. q second descriptions as " Which is the better to use. two repeatedly asked by the bee-keeper. Fig. 16. necessary for obtaining case of the former, trouble entailed by the paring and putting on time. The bees do the case is different, as a human agency, and it perience before good, obtained. The first con- These are of varying are illustrated at (Fig. being two bee-way. split top ; No. 3, split foundation. Nos. 4, 5, second description as are no bee-way sections, for the top three, or four bee-way?" is a question Personally, I have found the two bee-way give the best results. The comb is built up to the woodwork of the section better in these than in the four bee-way, the reason no doubt being that there is a dead stop for the bees to work up to. whereas in the four bee-way the bees- pass through the sides as well as top and bottom. As a rule they leave off about. 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 London


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