. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 139 swarm when supered for comb-honey. Then, again, there is the space occupied by these separators which might be more profitably filled with honey. The only method which appears practicable at present to attain this end is to use narrower sections. Nearly all who have experimented conclude that with the two-inch sections separators are indispensable, but
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 139 swarm when supered for comb-honey. Then, again, there is the space occupied by these separators which might be more profitably filled with honey. The only method which appears practicable at present to attain this end is to use narrower sections. Nearly all who have experimented conclude that with the two-inch sections separators are indispensable, but with sections running seven to the foot, or a width of slightly under Ifin. to each box, they have obtained satisfactorj^ results without separators. With only one bee space between the combs, instead of two, as there must be with separators, the narrower sections when well filled are said to weigh about the same as the two-inch ones. A Langstroth hive would take eight rows of the smaller size in the place of seven of the larger boxes. Opinions are very much divided upon the matter at present; I would therefore advise those who might wish to give the system a trial not to go to much expense or trouble at first in making the necessary alterations in their present appliances. SECTION RACKS AND CASES. Hitherto I have only mentioned the broad frame system in connection with sections, but there is another method of. Fig. 60.—PRIZE SECTION RACK. A. A ivedge for jamming the sections together, b b. Tin separators. c c. Glass in outside boxes. placing section boxes on a hive which dispenses with the frames. What is termed a rack is formed, consisting of a light framework of wood, across which thin laths are nailed three- eighths of an inch from the bottom at equal distance apart; on the edges of these the sections rest. The rack is set on top of the frames, and takes the place of an ordinary super, a deep cover fits over all, and rests on the hive. Fig. 60 shows. Please note that the
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