The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . -ing those years, showed qi ite conclusivelythat a top-bar a full inch wide, and I or Ithick, having a bee-space in the hive to al-low i inch, and also having the separateframes spa-ed from each other If from cen-ter to center, would be virtually proofagainst the building of burr-combs. TheL. frame is what is c
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . -ing those years, showed qi ite conclusivelythat a top-bar a full inch wide, and I or Ithick, having a bee-space in the hive to al-low i inch, and also having the separateframes spa-ed from each other If from cen-ter to center, would be virtually proofagainst the building of burr-combs. TheL. frame is what is called a• long one ;that is, the top-bar is rather longer than theother sizes of frames; and to preventits sagging, and so preserve the i)roper bee-space, experience has shown that it can notbe much less than | inch. Top-bars i inchhave been known 1;o sag a trifle ; so, to be onthe safe side, itis best to add at least i has shown that, for loose frames (for the definition of which seeFixed Frames), it may be desirable to useeven | inch ; and this will be more conven-ient for reasons to be presently given. Thefollowing cut shows what we call a thiek-top-bar frame. It is made a little differentfrom the one already described, as you willsee by referring to the THICK-TOP-BAR FRAME. As I have said, a |-inch thickness mightdo for loose frames; but as you proliablywill not be able to get lumlier of that thick-ness without paying for a great deal ofwaste, I would advise you to make your top-bars i thick. They had better be a littletoo thick than not thic k enough. HOW TO MAKE TH:t K-TOP-BAR FRAMES. Take | boards, and cut them up intolengths of 18| inches, and then squarethem up as already des ribed under themaking of iiives. Now, on each end oftiiese boaids cut a rabbet * inch into theend of tlie grain, by i inch deep across thegrain. You are then to ri]) them up intolengths of Ijj incl es wide. The next stepwill be to cut the c()mb-i;uide <iroove. Puton a tli
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