The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . MOORE CRATE. This is preferred by some ; but the greatobjection to it is, that sei)arators can not beused with it. It is of the same size as anordinary half-depth Dovetailed body, exceptin depth, which would be i inch less. Thesides are grooved on the inside, -4^ in. apart,so as to take three transverse partiti
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . MOORE CRATE. This is preferred by some ; but the greatobjection to it is, that sei)arators can not beused with it. It is of the same size as anordinary half-depth Dovetailed body, exceptin depth, which would be i inch less. Thesides are grooved on the inside, -4^ in. apart,so as to take three transverse partitions,these being f inch thick. Strips of tin arenailed to the bottom inside edge of the endsof the crate, as also on the bottoms of thetransverse partitions ; and these project farenough to support the sections. See CombHoney. honey-boards. If you use thick-top frames, no honey-boards are necessary; but some bee-keepersseem to be troubled by queens going up intosections, and they therefore use what iscalled the perforated zinc honey-board. Fordetails in regard to their use, see Contrac- TK^N. OBSERVATORY-HIVES. Before closing the subject of hive-makingit may be well to speak of what is called theobservatory-hive, used more as a curiosity, orstudy, than for any practical GLASS OBSEKVATORY-IIIVE. The picture will almost make it plain of it-self. If I am correct, the idea of an observ-ing-hive was first invented by ^Ir. Langstroth,and mine was made after the dimensions giv-en in iiis book, which I heie copy as follows,giving all dimensions in inches : Ba8c>-l)oard, 24?^ x44 x%. An entrance-hole, iS. ishorcflSj inches deep into the entl. and two holes arebored in its center, « in diameter and l« Iroin cen-ter to center, the wood beinjfcut out between of hive, 2>«v .\ 18«a-xb . Make a rabbet atl)oth iii)|)er corners, ?b on x ,a deep. Start a *»hole, 1 in. from the end, and bore slantin^f, to meetentrance-hole, and make a hole in the center to hive-ma
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