October 1920 



G 1. E A iN 1 jN G S IX BEE CULT U R E 



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1 1 Winter Problem Solved by the 

 II Hive with an Inner Overcoat . . 



Furnished with Jumbo Depth or Standard Hoffman Frames. 



Tlio above illustration shows the substantial, compact, neat and efficient 

 equipment that -.vinters normal colonies of bees perfectly. It consists of a 

 frame of honey laid over the to]) of the others: if you have no extras, one 

 can be removed from tlie brood-nest for the purpose. A 100-pound flour sack 

 is spread over the top and a piece of burlap .^> 1 x 30 inches is laid over this. 

 Tlie First Inner Overcoat is telescoped down over the brood-nest in between 

 the inner and outer hive walls, the flour sack and burlap being carried down 

 with it. This has the effect of wrapping the brood-nest in a blanket. The 

 Second Inner Overcoat is then telescoped down over the first. A quilt of old 

 carpet or similar material can be cut the right size and laid in over the bur 

 lap, inside the inner overcoats. The Inner Overcoats are removed in the 

 Si>ring and stored away in the fiat. This insulates the colony with a % inner 

 hive wall, with a flour sack and burlap wrapped about it, two thicknesses of 

 corrugated ](a])er board ai'ouiul the sides and ends and four thicknesses o\er 

 the top, together with the intervening air spaces and the % outer hive wall. 

 The work is done (jnickly and easily with no litter of packing materials. 



M I Order a sample shipment of these hives to try out the com- 



g I ing WINTER and be convinced of their efficiency and 



g I durability. Catalog and special circulars sent on request. 



II A. G. Woodman Co., Grand Rapids Mich., U. S. A. 



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