SEPTEMBER 15, 1912 



Owing to the fact that the top of the 

 hive is not level, but slanting, the capacity 

 of a ten-frame super is provided on the 

 eight-frame hive. The construction of the 

 wide frame and separator slats combined 

 permit easy passage of the bees from one 

 section to another at all points, so that 

 one section is not divided from another by 

 cross-cleats, thus separating the bees into 

 small gi-oups. The three sections are really 

 more like one shallow extracting-frame, so 

 far as the passage of the bees over and 

 around them is concerned. 



Notice that the super is a little longer 

 than the hive. There is an object in tliis; 

 for when the inside fixtures are removed, as 

 in the fall, the empty supers are used as 

 an outside winter case, three or more of 

 them being slid down over the brood- 

 chamber, making a tight double wall com- 

 pletely enclosing the hive itself, and leav- 

 ing room for plenty of packing over the 

 top of the brood-chamber. 



It will be noted that one side of the 

 super is considerably higlier than the other. 

 Instead of starting in the center, the bees 

 always start on this upper side because it 

 is warmer. At such times and when witli 

 cool weather there is a slow honey-flow 

 and the super is not uniformly worked, it 

 is the labor of but a moment to turn the 

 super around with the other side at the 

 top so that the bees will be sure to com- 

 plete that. This accomplishes the same re- 

 sult as is brought about by shifting the 

 sections from the outside to the center of 

 an ordinary super to be completed. By 



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reason of fewer propolis contact points, 

 finished frames may be removed to avoid 

 discoloration, or empty substitutes be 

 given when the near close of a honey-flow 

 does not warrant the giving of a whole 

 super. 



In No. 5 the entrance is at the bottom 

 of the brood-chamber. In a number of 

 the other hives it is on the other side, as 

 shoAvn in some of the other illustrations. 

 It is possible to have the entrance at either 

 side, and it takes but a moment or two to 

 change from one to the other. Mr. An- 

 thony has been experimenting considerably 

 with the two positions for the entrance, and 

 has not entirely decided whether either 

 position is best suited for all occasions; or 

 whether one position is better at one time, 

 and the other for some other time of the 

 year. There are certain advantages in 

 both; and it is ijrobable that, at certain 

 times of the year, one position would be 

 preferable to the other. Of course, if the 

 change were made the hive would be turned 

 around, so that the entrance would always 

 be in the same direction. Notice that the 

 brood-frames, instead of being at right 

 angles to the entrance, as in the ordinary 

 hive, are parallel to it, as in the liive used 

 by Mr. Allen Latham. The sections, more- 

 over, are not parallel to the brood-combs, 

 but lie crosswise. Another decided differ- 

 ence is that the bee-space, instead of being 

 over the top-bars, is under the bottom-bars, 

 so that there is no crushing of bees in 

 case the brood-chamber or super is set 

 down on any thing flat, helping also to 



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