. A dictionary of practical apiculture. Bees. 60 DICTIONABY OF. Fia\ 2. certainly not a rabbet. Some English writers call it a runner, but we prefer the word support in such cases. See Support. Race.—The term "race," in the sense of kind, is used to de- note a variety which, by long exposure to peculiar influences and conditions, has lost the tendency to recur to the original type. A race differs from a breed (q. v.), in that it has been pro- duced by natural means; and from a variety in that it has en- dured longer, and has become more permanent. Our most scientific bee-keepers ackn
. A dictionary of practical apiculture. Bees. 60 DICTIONABY OF. Fia\ 2. certainly not a rabbet. Some English writers call it a runner, but we prefer the word support in such cases. See Support. Race.—The term "race," in the sense of kind, is used to de- note a variety which, by long exposure to peculiar influences and conditions, has lost the tendency to recur to the original type. A race differs from a breed (q. v.), in that it has been pro- duced by natural means; and from a variety in that it has en- dured longer, and has become more permanent. Our most scientific bee-keepers acknowledge quite a number of distinct races of bees, amongst which may be named the Black, Brown or German Bee; the Carniolan; the Caucasian; the Cyprian; the Dalmatian; the Egyptian; the Holyland, Syrian, or Palestine; the Hungarian; the Italian or Ligurian, for a short description of all which, see under these several heads. In the case of some of these—notably the Italians and the Cyprians, the race has been hemmed in for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, by a wide extent of sea, or by mountain tops whose snow-clad summits were an effectual barrier to the passage alike of the queens, drones, and swarms of other races. Rack.—n. 1. This word was originally used to signify the grat- ing placed above a manger for holding hay; Bailey defines it as "a wooden frame to hold fodder for cattle, or to put bottles ; In bee-keeping the term honey rackis the name of an open frame- work or crate placed upon the brood frames for the purpose of holding sections or honey-boxes. 2. The term rack is also used in mechanics to signify a straight bar with teeth or projec- tions. Hence it has been applied to a bar having notches and fastened to the bottom of the hive for the purpose of keeping the frames the proper distance apart. Used with very deep frames and when moving stocks. Rack.—v. To draw off clear liquid from sediment. Raise ) Both these erms are properly applied to
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