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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 28, 1905 



Are Your Bees in Good Condition ? 



Outdoor Wintering is the Safest for the Majority of Bee-Keepers 



5 WINTEE IS COMING 



Dovetailed Chaff Hive 



This is one of the very best hives we sell ; and for win- 

 tering bees, or for the production of comb honey, we do not 

 know of anything better. 



A good many suppose that double-walled hives are use- 

 ful only for winter; but in localities subject to cool nights 

 and a very hot burning sun during the middle of the day, 

 they are none too warm for comb honey. Some of the best 

 bee-keepers of the country are beginning to learn that such 

 a hive, having well-protected supers, produces not only 

 more, but a better-filled comb honey. Our dovetailed chaff 

 has 2 inches between the walls, and when packed with 

 chaff, sawdust, planer-shavings, or any loose material, 

 makes a very warm brood-nest. The water-table, or pic- 

 ture-framelike rim, covering the inner and outer walls, per- 

 mits the use of the same supers that are used in the single- 

 walled hives. When these supers are put on this hive and 

 then covered with its warm, telescopic cover, the bees are 

 in position to store comb honey as they can not do in su- 

 pers not so protected. 



Dovetailed Winter Case 



There are those who, having single-walled hives desire 

 something which, at a slight additional expense, will con- 

 vert their hives into double-walled abodes for bees during 

 the winter. Again, some others who winter in-doore wish 

 something cheap and serviceable in the way of a protection 

 to put over the hives after they are set out in the spring. 

 To supply such we are prepared to furnish an outside case 

 having the same cover and the same outside shell as go with 

 the chaff hive described here. These are set over the 8- 

 frame hive, and the opening at the bottom of the case (that 

 is, the space between the hive inside and the case) is 

 stopped up with the padded sticks. Packing material is 

 poured in the space, after which a cushion or tray is put on 

 top of the frames, and the cover set over the whole. This 

 arrangement as a whole has given the best of results. 



These are large enough to go over 10-frame Dovetailed 

 and Simplicity hives, allowing only \ -inch space on each 

 side 



See prices of both 8 and 10 frame sizes in bottom line 

 of table below. 



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Complete prices and descriptions in general Catalog. Ask for it. 



9 Percent Discount for October Cash Orders 



MEDINA, 

 OHIO 



rl Ghicaoo, ; 44 E.Erie St. PhiladelDhia, 10 Vine St. New yorl(, 44 Veseu St. 



PtiiladelDhia, 10 Vine St. 



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