. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March J, 1875.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 189 with the blotting-paper and bell-glass arrangement, as described in a former Journal. I have not had the slightest appearance of damp or mouldiness in any of my hives—even on those with the space over the frames. I have only seen this quilt on one hive this winter, in the apiary of a friend, and that was very damp. It was well pro- tected from the weather and arranged in the most approved fasliion. B frout aud back of hive, with two triaugidar pieces of hard wood, AA, nailed thereon, with a piec
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March J, 1875.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 189 with the blotting-paper and bell-glass arrangement, as described in a former Journal. I have not had the slightest appearance of damp or mouldiness in any of my hives—even on those with the space over the frames. I have only seen this quilt on one hive this winter, in the apiary of a friend, and that was very damp. It was well pro- tected from the weather and arranged in the most approved fasliion. B frout aud back of hive, with two triaugidar pieces of hard wood, AA, nailed thereon, with a piece of zinc between one-sixteenth of an inch wider than the thick- ness of the pieces AA. This zinc projection fits into a saw-cut made in the imderside of the top bar of the frames, aud prevents any longitudinal movement of tbeni. 0 is a block of wood half an inch in tbickuess; one of these at each end between the frames, keeps them at a proper distance apart, aud ou removing them from between three or four of the frames, sufBcient space is given, by moving the frames laterally, for taking any one out, and obviates the necessity of a dummy. The double chamfer renders it almost an impossibility to crush a bee in placing the frame on the hive. J. Clevere Jones. Marley Villas, Market Drayton. GLASS HIVES. I see in your February Number a letter by Mr. J. Torry, giving a description of his hives after the frost, and I see that he has lost his bees out of his glass hive—frozen to death. He docs not say if it was simply a glass hive with only one thickness of glass ; if so I am not surprised at his loss. I may again say that my glass hives are all of three thicknesses with a cavity between each. I looked at mine for the first time yesterday, February 18th, since I put them down for the winter, which was in November. I took off the quilts and found them all in first-rate order and very strong, with very few dead bees in any of them. I remember my first loss of bees through damp was
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