. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. flS'TY YEARS AMOKG THE BEES &a easj' thing- of removing the first eomb from a hive. With self- spacing frames there can be no crowding together of the frames so as to give one of them extra room as is the case with loose- hanging frames, and if a hive be filled full of self-spacing frames it would be about impossible to remove the first frame after a fair amount of propolis is present. A dummy at onf side is the thing to help out. An eight-frame dovetailed hive is 12V8 inches wide inside. Eight frames spaced 1% inches from center to center will oc- cupy
. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. flS'TY YEARS AMOKG THE BEES &a easj' thing- of removing the first eomb from a hive. With self- spacing frames there can be no crowding together of the frames so as to give one of them extra room as is the case with loose- hanging frames, and if a hive be filled full of self-spacing frames it would be about impossible to remove the first frame after a fair amount of propolis is present. A dummy at onf side is the thing to help out. An eight-frame dovetailed hive is 12V8 inches wide inside. Eight frames spaced 1% inches from center to center will oc- cupy 11 inches, leaving at one side a space of lYs inches, abund. Fig. 29—Tool-hasket. ance of room to lift out the first frame easily. A dummy put into that space will prevent the bees from filling it up with comb, and it ought never to be difficult to lift out the dummy. If a dummy a trifle more than a fourth of an inch thick be put in, leaving a fourth of an inch between dummy and frame, there will be left between the dummy and the side of the hive a space little more than half an inch, a space that the bees will never fill with comb in such a place. As propolis accumulates, however, this space will become less. The dummy should be light and at t1ie same time quite. 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 Miller, C. C. (Charles C. ), 1831-1920. Medina, Ohio : A. I. Root Co.
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