. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fig. ^Showing the Spacing-Wire. {Cuts from Langstroffi Revised by Dadant.) Fig. 3—Two Extracting-Sxipers. ence with open corners, and having to fit mud, or bits of pine, or even grass, in those joints, when the weather is cool and the robbers plentiful. There are times when it looks as if even the bees of that hive were hovering around that crack to make you think they were trying to rob their own hive, and destroy your peace of mind. G, G, 4 pieces, 2 for sides, lj^x24; 2 for ends, IJixlS's'. Cap or cover, to telescope over the hive. P, P, front, bac
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fig. ^Showing the Spacing-Wire. {Cuts from Langstroffi Revised by Dadant.) Fig. 3—Two Extracting-Sxipers. ence with open corners, and having to fit mud, or bits of pine, or even grass, in those joints, when the weather is cool and the robbers plentiful. There are times when it looks as if even the bees of that hive were hovering around that crack to make you think they were trying to rob their own hive, and destroy your peace of mind. G, G, 4 pieces, 2 for sides, lj^x24; 2 for ends, IJixlS's'. Cap or cover, to telescope over the hive. P, P, front, back and sides of cap, two pieces for sides, 8ja'. These may be made 1 inch longer and halved into the sides to nail both ways, and the same thing may be done with the body. Top of cap, flat, 21x'25 inches. Wo make this of matcht lumber, and use a roof over the hive made of rough boards to shed the rain and shelter the hive from the sun. A well-palntod hive, sheltered in this way, should last till the combs are too old to be of any use—30 years or more. Extracting super: sides, two pieces, (i%x21 ; ends, two pieces, 6%xl(j, rabbeted for frame shoulders the same as the body. This makes the extractlng-super }4 inch narrower than the lower story, so the cap fits over it readily. Ten frames only are used in the super and ton frames and one division- board in the body. IJody frames : Top-bar, 1 Vx20;4, triangular or square as desired; shoulder at each end 1"^. End-bars, two pieces, %xi^xllJi. Bottom-bar, 13/16x>ixl8. Ex- Bee-Stiugs Cure Toothache and Rheumatism. BY S. A. DEACON. I used to be a martyr to toothache, but since I have been engaged in bee-keeping I have often congratulated myself up- on a comparative immunity from this, one of the most terri- ble of all the ills to which human flesh is heir. Owing to prolonged drought, I have fust very little lately with the bees, my son doing what little required to be done amongst the hives ; and where being stung, and that se
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