Gleanings in bee culture Volume 3 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...say, I have moved bees In them several times across lake Michigan, in tho spring, summer and fall, without killing a beo or breaking a comb. Take a piece of wood about X inches square, or triangular, like a Langstroth comb guide, cut It as long ns width of hive inside, and cut notches in it as far apart as frames hang in hive; notches are to be large enough to let In bottom of frames. Put It crosswise In bottom of hive and fasten; hang frames in. put on thick quilt, that honey board when screwed on may press It down firmly on the frame, then put wire screen over porlleo and all Is ready. It will be seen that I use tlic Langhtroth hive, as a portico Is very nesessary to give good ventilation. Mr. Adam Grimm tells me that he has yet to lose the flret swarm shipped In this way. Ebwin Stanuope. P. S.--We propose to blow our bugle some, after experimenting. In reference to ripening honey alter extracting. Fentwater, Mich. March 5th, "75. Now, although we should be sorry to advise any thing that might result in loss, we really think the bottom stick'"might be dispensed with, and we should thus avoid stirring the lees up, just before shipping. With the Sim-1 jliclty hives, we should then have simply to put old newspapers under the cover until, when j forced down, it would press the quilt firmly on top of the frames; the hivecan then be turned over like an old box hive, and after the bees arc driven down among the combs by smoke, a piece of wire cloth can be put over the bottom, or for short distances, a piece of cotton cloth' only. If the wire cloth be used it will be but a short Job to put a long tack through it into each of the 10 frames, and we would then transport them inverted. One great reason: why we would avoid taking the combs out before shippin...