. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. Kg. T.—Metal End. the end firmly on to the bar; but the eye of the bee-keeper soon gets accustomed to the distance which the frames should be spaced apart, and he will not need to use metal ends. There are many other ways of spacing the frames: some use staples Pig. 8.—Broad-ahonldered Top Bar with Saw-out for Fotmdation. driven into the top bar; others use frames with " broad- shouldered " top bars (fig. 8); but I myself prefer a plain frame t
. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. Kg. T.—Metal End. the end firmly on to the bar; but the eye of the bee-keeper soon gets accustomed to the distance which the frames should be spaced apart, and he will not need to use metal ends. There are many other ways of spacing the frames: some use staples Pig. 8.—Broad-ahonldered Top Bar with Saw-out for Fotmdation. driven into the top bar; others use frames with " broad- shouldered " top bars (fig. 8); but I myself prefer a plain frame to any. The Floor-board. The floor-board (fig. 9) should be made of wood not less than I inch in thickness—1 inch is better: it should project. Fig. 9. —Floor-board and Alighting-board. 1| inch beyond the entrance, and a sloping alighting-board, A, 7 inches or 9 inches broad, should be fixed at the end of it. The floor and alighting-boards should be nailed on to the stand B B, which should be 4 inches or 6 inches wide and made of 1-inch or l|-inch wood, the latter thickness being Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Samson, George Gordon. London, C. Lockwood and son
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