. Gleanings in bee culture . xplained to me the advantages of a closed-end frame—how the brood would be builtup to the end-bars because there would beno side-eddying currents of air; how hecould hunt queens; how he could dissect thehive, take it all to pieces and put it to-gether again, and yet not kill a bee, andthat with no other tool than a common jack-knife; how those bad (?) Quinby frames,instead of being all stuck up with bee glueso that they would have to be separated with a cold-chisel, could be separated andliandled with ease. He showed how, wlienhe opened up a Hetlierington-Quinby hi
. Gleanings in bee culture . xplained to me the advantages of a closed-end frame—how the brood would be builtup to the end-bars because there would beno side-eddying currents of air; how hecould hunt queens; how he could dissect thehive, take it all to pieces and put it to-gether again, and yet not kill a bee, andthat with no other tool than a common jack-knife; how those bad (?) Quinby frames,instead of being all stuck up with bee glueso that they would have to be separated with a cold-chisel, could be separated andliandled with ease. He showed how, wlienhe opened up a Hetlierington-Quinby hive,the daylight would pour through the he separated the frames he openedup the hive at its ends, letting the light he got through with his manipulationhe put the frames together, even thoughthe bars were covered with bees, in such away as not to kill a single bee, and certain-ly in much less time than it takes to tell then showed how, with a couple of pan-els on the outside, he could, in connection. The late P. H. Elwood. with just the frames, make a completebrood-nest without a hive-body. Such ahive, he demonstrated, could be made largeor small without the use of also showed how he could put his comb-honey supers or clamps, as he calledtliem, on top, and then over the whole atelescoping cap such as is ordinarily usedto cover the brood-nest during cool weath-er, but which, during the summer, is usedto shade the hive and the brood-nest. The illustration will show the originalHetherington-Quinby hive such as I sawmanipulated, and which I later saw myfriend, C. F. M. Stone, use in this connection it is interesting to re-mark that Mr. Stone said his Quinby hivewas always strong, and always ready for acrop of honey. Mr. Elwood gave me my first intimationas to the value of powerful colonies; hut T 440 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE July,1922 did not at that time have sense enough tosoise all that he said, because I was over-whelme
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