. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. It is still used bymany in the same form in which it was brought out in 1852. Othershave changed the dimensions of the frames and given them different names, while retaining thespecial feature of the inven-tors principle, namely, theloose-fitting frame suspend-ed by the projecting endsof its top bar on a contin-uous rabbet. The outsidedimensions of the Lang-stroth frame most in useare 17| inches long by 9jinches deep (tig. 24 . Quinby, one of the mostpractical and successfulbeemasters of our frames 12 inchesdeep l»
. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. It is still used bymany in the same form in which it was brought out in 1852. Othershave changed the dimensions of the frames and given them different names, while retaining thespecial feature of the inven-tors principle, namely, theloose-fitting frame suspend-ed by the projecting endsof its top bar on a contin-uous rabbet. The outsidedimensions of the Lang-stroth frame most in useare 17| inches long by 9jinches deep (tig. 24 . Quinby, one of the mostpractical and successfulbeemasters of our frames 12 inchesdeep l»y IS inches Long, andand these are still used bymany large honey raisers. Other sizes are also used somewhat. The bars composing frames are usually made seven-eighths inch wide,although some prefer to have the top bar 1 inch or even L| inches wide,and the bottom bar is made by some as narrow as live-eighths inch oreven three-eighths inch square. The narrower bottom bar. at leastdown to a width of five eighths inch, renders the removal of the frames. Fi(i. 2:i.—Dadant-Qninby form of Langstroth hive, with cap and gable roof. (Redrawn from Langstroth on the I lone vBee.) 42 MANUAL OF APICULTURE. less difficult, and bees are brushed off a little more easily; but whencombs cut from box hives are to be fitted into the frames it is not quiteso easy to hold the pieces in the center of the frame by means of trans-ferring sticks and get the bees to fasten them securely at the bottom as it is with full seven-eighths-T inch bottom bars. Top barshave been made by somehive manufacturers fromone-fourth-inch to three-eight h s - i n c h strips,strengthened somewhat bya very thin strip placededgewise on the undersideas a comb guide; but suchbars are much too light andwill sag when filled withhoney or with brood and honey, and when section holders or otherreceptacles for surplus honey or sets of combs are placed above themmore than a bee space exists between the upper and lower sets of frames
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