. Gleanings in bee culture . easily put together, and strong and durable;at the same time, it touches the bottom-board only around the edges. FRAMES. The furniture of the bee-house is verysimple, and rather wanting in variety; butthe tenants so far have not been known tomake any complaint, so we will gravely as-sume they are satisfied. They are mostlyladies, seemingly free of the habit (said tobe characteristic of their human sisters) offinding fault with their home and its fur-nishings. Eight frames, sometimes ten,with a division-board or follower, is a com-plete inventory of the contents of
. Gleanings in bee culture . easily put together, and strong and durable;at the same time, it touches the bottom-board only around the edges. FRAMES. The furniture of the bee-house is verysimple, and rather wanting in variety; butthe tenants so far have not been known tomake any complaint, so we will gravely as-sume they are satisfied. They are mostlyladies, seemingly free of the habit (said tobe characteristic of their human sisters) offinding fault with their home and its fur-nishings. Eight frames, sometimes ten,with a division-board or follower, is a com-plete inventory of the contents of the brood- 1911 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 23 chamber. As will be seen from Fig. 8, eachframe consists of a top-bar, a bottom-bar,and two end-bars. The top-bar is longerthan the bottom one, the projecting lugsbeing the points of support when the frame BEE-KEEPING IN is in the hive. Notice the end-bars partic-ularly, for the ui^per third is wider than thelower part, the respective sizes being 1^inch and 1 inch. Careful measurementsand experiments have proved that beesbuild combs in the natural state very near-ly one inch and a half from center to cen-ter, so man secures the proper distance inthe hive by making the end-bars of theframes the proper width. The space be-tween the lower part of two frames is theregular bee-space of three-eighths of an inch,so as to facilitate the movement of the beesfrom one part of the hive to another. DIVISION-BOARD. Since there is considerable expansion andcontraction in a hive, due to the presenceor absence of moisture it would be unwiseto make the frames a close fit, so the brood-chamber is somewhat wider thin the framespemand. After the frames are all in, thevacant space is partially reduced by the in-troduction of a division-board, which, beingin contact with the last frame, really be-comes the wall of the brood
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