. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 1:58 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 15, 1884. will now all hang firmly in the middle of hive and will not be able to move from side to side. Now fasten l, Fig 4, just on the top and nail it fast, and when M is .screwed on, no frame will be able to move any way (â when ii is removed the frame-fastener can be lifted off); now screw w, Fig 14, just over the dummy, and they will. Fig. 14.âFrame-fastener. be fast, on the top for any journey; the front may be fastened up with wire-cloth, tacked on over ; if a frame-fastener is made and kept
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 1:58 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 15, 1884. will now all hang firmly in the middle of hive and will not be able to move from side to side. Now fasten l, Fig 4, just on the top and nail it fast, and when M is .screwed on, no frame will be able to move any way (â when ii is removed the frame-fastener can be lifted off); now screw w, Fig 14, just over the dummy, and they will. Fig. 14.âFrame-fastener. be fast, on the top for any journey; the front may be fastened up with wire-cloth, tacked on over ; if a frame-fastener is made and kept for each hive, and M is simply screwed on (which should always be the case so as to be at hand when wanted); it ought not to take more than one minute to pack up a hive for a long jour- ney ; and if they could be so packed railway companies would soon provide accommodation to remove them on to the moors from different parts of the country, and people would soon develope the system, so that all the bees in the country would stand a chance of working on the thousands of acres of heather; but this will never come to pass if hives are likely to fall in pieces or bees escape.âJohn Hewitt, Sheffield. {To be continued.) ON THE ANALYSIS OF HONEY. By Otto Hehneb. (Reccci be/ore the Society of Public Analysts.) Through the kindness of a number of prominent members of the British Bee-keepers' Association, I have recently been put into possession of a large number of samples of honey of undoubted genuineness. In many instances the origin of the honey was known, that is to say, the kind of blossom from which it was derived, as far as this is possible. Some of the samples were extracted from the comb by the bee-keepers, many of them by my- self. I was urged by the Association referred to, to undertake an investigation into the nature of honey, and, if possible, to devise some means for the discovery of its adulteration, on account of the injury done to vendors and producers uf the genuin
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