. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. .'ply's â T. 8th. Its great strength and durability, owing to its peculiarity of shape and construction, rendering it almost impervious to atmospheric influences. 9th. The impossibility of new brittle combs falling down in the frames of this hive during removal, or the process of weighing, the combs matle in these frames being capable of sustaining a much higher de- gree of temperature, before falling, than the combs built in any other description of hive. loth. The economisation of space, and conse- quently of heat, effected by the peculi
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. .'ply's â T. 8th. Its great strength and durability, owing to its peculiarity of shape and construction, rendering it almost impervious to atmospheric influences. 9th. The impossibility of new brittle combs falling down in the frames of this hive during removal, or the process of weighing, the combs matle in these frames being capable of sustaining a much higher de- gree of temperature, before falling, than the combs built in any other description of hive. loth. The economisation of space, and conse- quently of heat, effected by the peculiar shape ot this hive and frames. I ith. The great ease with which a full super may be exchanged for an empty one. i2th. The impossibility of the bees so firmly pro- polising the frames in the hive as to render their re- moval difficult. 13 th. The security and ease with which this hive can be packed and sent long distances, whether wholly or partly filled with new or old combs, without injury to either the hive or its contents, arising from the non-shifting of the frames, either vertically or late- rally. 14th. The readiness with which the moisture may be collected, and removed from this hive. S. WYATT. Westbrook, near Tenbury, Worcestershire. This Hive will be further described.âEd. INTRODUCING QUEENS. 00 It may be as well to premise at the outset that there is no royal route to the hive throne, the bee keeper may exert all the diplomacy of which he is master, and yet see his nominee ruthlessly poniarded before his eyes, while a queen, by the merest accident, find- ing her way into a queenless stock, may be most gra- ciously received and accepted. Can it be otherwise ? when we so often find not an alien sovereign, but their own justly prized queen, ignominiously deposed and put to death by her own offspring, in those mysterious regicidal attacks, which are among the deeper depths of apiarian science. Take the case of an exceedingly handsome Italian monarch, which reigned at
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