THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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sence of burr-combs, their cause and 

 prevention. 



I am well aware that I have given 

 some flatterino- testimonials for the 

 Qiiinby s\-stem. I am not sure, liovv- 

 ever, tiiat beekeepers generally would 

 not like the oi)en or moval)le sides. 

 The hive looked a little top heavy also, 

 and a good many beekee|)ers incline 

 toward the shapely appearance of a 

 tiling as well as its practical utility 

 with the two combined." 



The Bay State Hive. 



Tliere, friends, I told 3'ou these same 

 things a good many years ago, and not 

 only pointedout to you tlie advantages 

 of tlie closed end frame hive, but of- 

 fered for sale one of the best hives 

 now in use. 



Now tiiat this subject is opened up 

 anew, I have no doubt that thousands 

 of l)eekeepers will adopt the closed- 

 end frames. 



We need not mention again the fact 

 that tiie Bay State iiive has a closed- 

 end frame, nor need I mention all its 

 good points. As we have added many 

 new readers to our list the past year, 

 we will, for their benefit, give a brief 

 description of the Bay Stale Hive. 



Fig. 1 represents the bottom-board, 

 l)roo(l-chami)er and one section-case 

 from wliicli the side-boards have been 



Fig. 1. 



removed, tluis exposing the interior 

 of the brood-nest and the four outside 

 sections C C C C in the case. Tlie 

 frames are held in place by two iron 

 rods D D, which pass through tiie 

 end of the side-boards of the brood- 

 chamber, thus clamping the frames 

 solidly together when the thumb nuts 



are set up. When necessary to move 

 a colony of bees in one of the Bay 

 Slate hives there are no frames to nail 

 nor can the frames get out of place in 

 any event. The section case is com- 

 posed of six bi oad-frames ; each hold- 

 ing four one-pound sections, or twenty- 

 four sections to the case. A wood sep- 

 arator is used between each two frames 

 or five to eacii eight sections. Like 

 the brood-nest, the six broad-frames 

 of the section case are held together 

 by an iron rod which runs through the 

 centre of the case, as shown in the il- 

 lustration. All the twenty-four sec- 

 tions may be put on or removed from 

 the hive in a body, and if desirable, 

 the rotl can be removed and any one 

 of tl>e broad-frames taken out singly. 

 The case is also reversible whicii is an 

 important feature in any hive. I know 

 of no way by which the sections can be 

 tilled with lioney without popdioles, 

 and fastened so nicely on all sides the 

 section as by reversing at the proper 

 time. Now this can be done so quickly 

 and quietly with this section-case that 

 there is little or no disturbance to the 

 bees. There is just a bee-space (three- 

 sixteenths of an inch) between the 

 section-case and the top-bar of the 

 brood-frames ; and the bees build no 

 brace-combs between nor between the 

 top bars of the frames. Another point 

 which can be claimed for no other 

 hive is the fact that the queen has 

 never been known to enter and deposit 

 eggs in any section cases used on the 

 Bay State Jlioe, and no queeu-exclnder 

 is used. Can the same be said of any 

 other hive? The section-cases can l)e 

 tiered as high as is practical as the 

 passage ways are continuous. We 

 have tiered them successfully as high 

 as four cases, at one time. When a 

 case of sections is added, the one put 

 on first is reversed and the new case 

 placed directly on the frames, thus 

 bringing the empty sections the near- 

 est to the brood-nest. There is no 

 hive in use whereby the sections can 

 be placed so near tlie brood as can be 

 done in the Bay State Hive. The ex- 



