. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. CHAPTER IV. HIVES. The Straw Skep. The straw step is a bell-shaped hive made of straw, in which the bees can build their combs in any way they like, fastening them to the roof and sides. Thus the combs cannot be taken from a skep for examination, and it is consequently called a " fixed-comb" hive. In this particular it differs greatly from the " movable-comb " or " bar-frame " hive, for in the latter every comb can be remove
. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. CHAPTER IV. HIVES. The Straw Skep. The straw step is a bell-shaped hive made of straw, in which the bees can build their combs in any way they like, fastening them to the roof and sides. Thus the combs cannot be taken from a skep for examination, and it is consequently called a " fixed-comb" hive. In this particular it differs greatly from the " movable-comb " or " bar-frame " hive, for in the latter every comb can be removed for examination and returned to the hive with little disturbance to the bees. The Bar-frame Hive. In the bar-frame hive each separate comb is built in a frame (fig. 5) like a box without top or Kg. 5.—Bar-frame. The British Bee-keepers' Associatiop has fixed the size of the " standard " frame at 14 inches long by 8| inches deep, the top bar 17 inches long by § inch thick, the side bars | inch thick, the bottom bar J inch thick, the top and side bars g inch wide, the bottom bar § inch wide. This is the frame now in general use, and no bee-keeper should use any other size. The frames hang in the body hive, the ends of the top bars resting on the inner walls, a space of \ inch being left between the side bai's of the frames and the hive's walls. Each frame should also hang | inch or | inch clear of the floor-board (fig. 6).. 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 Samson, George Gordon. London, C. Lockwood and son
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