1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



275 



Wide Frames with Separators 



UY a M. POULlTTI.i;. 



For several years hack there has 

 been some kiekin^r on the part of bee 

 keef)ers ajrainst wide frames with sep- 

 arators, some even going so far as to 

 pet diet that they wouhi soon be 

 "things of the past," but after trying 

 most of the various arrangements 

 which are used to secure honey in sec- 

 tions without thera, I am satisfied that 

 there is one who will continue to use 

 wide frames with separators, a few 



separators which were hung fiom the 

 top of each section in such a way that 

 a passage way was left for the bees on 

 each side of this separator. This prov- 

 ed a success, hut as the size of the sec- 

 tions or the boxes was decreasing all 

 the while, it soon seemed like an end- 

 less job to handle each small box sep- 

 arately, together with a separate sepa- 

 rator for each. To overcome this dif- 

 ficulty we soon had the wide frame 

 with a separator tacked to one side so 

 that from two to four section boxes 



years longer, at least, for I believe could be placed in each wide frame, 



them to be of real advantage in secur- We now not only had it so that there 



ing a crop of comb honey in the most was no bulging of combs when glass 



marketable shape. While speaking was not u-ed, but so that we could 



regarding this subject perhaps it might handle as much honey at one time as 



be intere^ting to some of the younger we used to with the old six pound 



bee keepers to know something of the boxes. These wide fiames weie so ar- 



past, and how wide fiames and s(>par- ranged that they could be used either 



atois came into general use. Years at the side of the hive or on top, or 



ago, when I first commenced kee})ing 

 bees, I knew of no box for surplus 

 honey smaller than tlie six [)ound box, 

 as then used on the Liing-iroi li hive. 

 I next saw tlie Ali> y and Hiurixm 

 boxt s, which h-'ld about three pounds. 

 Aitliough of (iitferenl .-tyle and shape 

 neither of them pieaSiil me. i tlieii 

 made a bix to liold two and one half 

 pounds, and prepared a hive so these 

 could l)e placed all ar-'Und i he liiond 

 nest and on lop, Imi as I iini.-l of 

 necessity glass them ludnie l he i>ees 

 filled them tas separalois wiic on- 

 known at that time in older to ket j) 

 the l)ees Iroin buluing the co'nili- one 

 into another, it was laiher .-low pio^. 

 ress which I made. .A Tier liiis lime 

 s.iiiie one I'lalz d the m ce.-.-iiy of do- 

 ing somel hiiig to kttp ill!' I'ets ir.iMi 

 bulging the combs on- i t.> i In oihei , 

 so glass boxes Couid oe dispeii.-ed 

 with, and as a result we coiii had tin 



both, at pleasure. Abqut this time 

 another party thought to go farther 

 ah)ng the line of handling many sec- 

 tions at a time, and at the same time 

 use these wide frames on the tiering up 

 plan ; so frames were made to hold 

 eight section, to be used in a two-story 

 hive, each wide fi-ame of eight sec- 

 tions hanging in the upper hive the 

 same as the ordinary frames were 

 hung ill the hive below, the same 

 plan being used by some bee keepers 

 of today, riiis u-ing two tiers of sec- 

 tmns in one wide frame is what has 

 cans, d apiarists to cry out against 

 them, while if only one tier had been 

 use<l, as was first iuiemled, and these 

 tienil up, those liking the tiering up 

 plan would not have tried to substitute 

 any otiier arrangement for wide 

 frames, it ^eem.-> to me, for I find them 

 better adapted lor the securing of sur- 

 plus honey than anything else, all 



