. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AT $ PER ANNUM. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK HE OV-*- ^IN AMERICA. 35th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., JUNE 20, 1895. No. 25. Cot;)tnbuted /Kriiclcs^ On Important Apiarian Subjects. Tacks or Small Nails for Spacing Frames. By CHA8. A. F. DOERE. On page 317, I see an article about spacing-tacks. Let me tell how I use spacing-tacks, and used them with satisfac- tion more than 10 years ago in Germany. I use the Gallup frame (lUixllJi inches outside meas- use), which I make myself of common laths, one inch wide. In each frame 4 spacing-tacks (wire nails, thin, one inch
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AT $ PER ANNUM. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK HE OV-*- ^IN AMERICA. 35th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., JUNE 20, 1895. No. 25. Cot;)tnbuted /Kriiclcs^ On Important Apiarian Subjects. Tacks or Small Nails for Spacing Frames. By CHA8. A. F. DOERE. On page 317, I see an article about spacing-tacks. Let me tell how I use spacing-tacks, and used them with satisfac- tion more than 10 years ago in Germany. I use the Gallup frame (lUixllJi inches outside meas- use), which I make myself of common laths, one inch wide. In each frame 4 spacing-tacks (wire nails, thin, one inch long, with very small heads) are driven about an inch from the ends a^tv^ ^9aH\ Fig. 1. Fig. 2. of the top and bottom bars. The tacks stand out % of an inch, so the frames are apart 1 % inches from center to center. They are arranged as in Fig. l,the left being the top-bar, and the right the bottom-bar. The top and bottom bars take each 2 spacing-tacks—the top-bar one on the right on the front side, and one on the left on the rear side. In the bottom-bar the tacks are arranged the other way, viz.: one on the left on the front side, and one on the right on the rear side. You see, this arrangement re- mains the same, if you turn the frame front to back, or back to front. In order to space the first and last frames accurately, the front and back walls of the hive have each two little cleats {% of an inch thick, and about 1}.^ inches long) nailed to them. On the front wall they are arranged thus : Above on the left, and below on the right hand side. On the back wall reversely —above on the right, and below on the left side. The upper ends of these cleats above are even with the upper surfaces of the top-bars of the frames, and the lower ends of the cleats below are on a level with the under surfaces of the bottom- bars. If you remove the cover of the hive and every other frame out of it, the top view will look like Fig. 2. As I said above, I use for spacing-tacks thin wire nai
Size: 3442px × 726px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectbees, bookyear1861
