. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 610 THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. Dec. 29, 1921. hives each at each side of this centre path. The hives are all numbered, the bee-house is in the centre, the entrance facing this middle path, so that, standing with one's back to the bee-house, the hive on the extreme left of. Covered Boumac Hives. M. Raymond on Right. the nearac?t row is No. 1; No. 30 is on the ex- treme right. Between the hedge and the bar-frame hives there are two rows of conical hives, on the principle of the oow-dung hives described before, but these are square cones made o
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 610 THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. Dec. 29, 1921. hives each at each side of this centre path. The hives are all numbered, the bee-house is in the centre, the entrance facing this middle path, so that, standing with one's back to the bee-house, the hive on the extreme left of. Covered Boumac Hives. M. Raymond on Right. the nearac?t row is No. 1; No. 30 is on the ex- treme right. Between the hedge and the bar-frame hives there are two rows of conical hives, on the principle of the oow-dung hives described before, but these are square cones made of thin wood and are cut away slightly on one side to form a flight hole. They are put by M. Couterel on to proper stands and supplied with the loose coverings of long straw used for the primitive dung hives; from these he takes the artificial swarms he sell? and despatches during the season. He as- sured ns that it was a very rare event for a swarm ever to issue from any of his bar-framo hives. Perhaps the most interesting item of our visit was the bee-house and plant. Some idea of its size may be gathered from the photo- graphs. This is a large and roomy bungalow building with a big main workshop and ex- tracting-room on the ground floor, under- neath which there is an equally lai'ge cella1' M. Couterel, himself, removes the frames from the supers one at a time, and, after brushing off the bees, puts them into boxe? made to hold ten shallow frames; during this operation he has a man with him to keep the smoker going. These boxes of shallow frame? are then passed through a bee-proof shutter into the bee-house; here they are uncapped and extracted, the honey running from the extractor into a vat, and from thence through pipes into large ripeners in the cellar below These are on a raised platform, so that the honey can be run out easily into barrels or wooden buckets, being the form in which it is most commonly delivered to the purchasers in France. Below the level of the ripener
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