. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A Side View of One of the ' Coaxer" Frames When bees are put in the cellar for win- ter the "Coaxers" are all removed and stored in the honey house. Each Coaxer contains about twelve pounds of honey which is just about what a colony needs between fruit bloom and clover or raspberry flow. Bottom View of 'Coaxer" Super The Sectional Hive BY W. F. GEDDES. [Continued from September.] BEEKEEPING with sectional hives produces better combs. In the transposing of the sections in the shallow hive, the combs are generally built out better an
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A Side View of One of the ' Coaxer" Frames When bees are put in the cellar for win- ter the "Coaxers" are all removed and stored in the honey house. Each Coaxer contains about twelve pounds of honey which is just about what a colony needs between fruit bloom and clover or raspberry flow. Bottom View of 'Coaxer" Super The Sectional Hive BY W. F. GEDDES. [Continued from September.] BEEKEEPING with sectional hives produces better combs. In the transposing of the sections in the shallow hive, the combs are generally built out better and more uniformly attached to the wood than in the stand- ard Langstroth. Figure 7 will illus- trate this point. It is seen that the bees have built their comb to within half an inch of the bottom-bar of the Langstroth frame while the shallow frame is attached on all sides. Comb space is thus wasted and a hiding place is provided for the queen. Lack of attachment renders a new comb liable to fall out through handling and extracting. Probably the greatest advantages of the sectional hive are those which apply to the production of comb honey; and these hives, in one form or an- other, are used very largely by comb- honey producers. Leo. E. Gately says : " Contraction of the brood-nest is a necessary essential to insure satis- factory work in the surplus boxes, and in this respect all brood-chambers con- sisting of a single tier of deep frames are enormously deficient. By remov- ing one of the sections in a horizon- tally divisible brood-chamber the shal- lowness of the remaining division im- mediately throws the whole working force of bees into the surplus recepta- ; There is no need of " baits " be- cause the bees have formed the habit of going into the upper story to work. Beekeepers using the divisible hive claim that there need be no " left overs " because all partially tilled sections may be converted into good salable ones by "feeding b
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