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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



MayI 



additional frames (not visible), a total of 

 thirty-five. Thus it will be readily seen that 

 the hive is of enormous capacity for obser- 

 vation or work, and admits of a great varie- 

 ty of combinations and arrangements, to 

 meet the needs of experiment, or to suit the 

 fancy of the operator. 



The entire structure full of frames would 

 hold forty-three, of which twelve sides would 

 be easily under observation at one time. 

 (When the flying cage is filled with frames, 

 of course no interior surfaces are visible. 

 When fewer than twelve frames are put in, 

 if separated, more than four interiors may 

 be seen). This is in addition to eight out- 

 side sections in super, and gives full facilities 

 for exhibition of the stages of comb-mak- 

 ing, the storage of honey, thef^cell struc- 

 tures, the queen, the drone and [the worker 

 brood, and a variety of novel experiments. 



There is ample room under, above, and be- 

 tween the two 

 tiers of frames 

 in the flying- 

 cage for any 

 form or for 

 several forms 

 of base feeders 

 such as the 

 Page or the 

 Miller. 



Between the 

 one- frame and 

 the two-frame 

 hives at the 

 top of the main 

 division are 

 two glass-jar 

 feeders, in 

 which the bees 

 are sucking 

 downward (or 

 feeding from 

 under side) the 

 syrup. In all 

 others they are 

 sucking it up- 

 ward (feeding 

 from top). The 

 hive as awhole 

 is designed to 



be set up at some distance from the window 

 or other exit through the wall of a building, 

 for temporary exhibition at a fair, a mu- 

 seum, or for special visitors' day at a 

 Fchool (when it is not convenient to take a 

 large number of visitors to the regular lo- 

 cation of the hive in another part of the 

 building) . 



In devising this form, I have had in mind 

 also an exhibition in the center of large 

 stores. To the storekeeper this would be a 

 novel and excellent advertisement to attract 

 people to the store, to the apiarist a source 

 of income for the placing and the renting of 

 the hive and contents, and to the advance- 

 ment of bee keeping, because producing an 

 increased interest on the part of the public. 



Body of Hive.— This holds ten regular 

 frames, a "base of supplies, " a brood-cham- 

 ber and force of bees. One side of each of 



the two outside frames is visible. It is rec- 

 ommended that stored honey in full (as in 

 the illustration) be shown in this. 



Observation Chamber . — Designed especial- 

 ly to show processes of queen-rearing. This 

 chamber is of extra depth, and the glass (as 

 in body and super) is readily removable. 

 Frames may be taken out or put in at the 

 side. These chambers (two made by an 

 especially deep padded division- board) are 

 automatically filled or emptied (as are the 

 one- frame and two-frame "traveling hives " 

 above the super) . This is done by a system 

 of slides— a long slide covering plain slot 

 and a Porter bee-escape slot in base of 

 chamber to be filled, and a long plain slot 

 corresponding in length to both above it, in 

 the base below the operating-chamber. 

 "* When the slide in the base of the operat- 

 ing-chamber is out, bees go in or out. When 

 the slide is half way in, bees go out only; 



A large reading-glass, preferably one five inches in diameter, makes more interesting and 

 easier to observe all the activities of the hive. 



and by pushing the slide fully in, bees go 

 neither in nor out. Thus one or more brood- 

 frames in either chamber may be isolated or 

 emptied of bees by manipulating this slide. 

 The same principle is applied to the bases 

 of the one- frame and the two-frame travel- 

 ing hives and to the magnifying feeder. 



Super.— Ihxs has thirty- two full sections, 

 each four by five inches, the entire one side 

 of eight being plainly visible. 



One-Frame and Two-Frame Traveling 

 Hives.— These have the automatic filling, 

 emptying, and isolating devices by a system 

 of two slots, two slides and bee-escape, as 

 explained under the head of observation 

 chamber. They are fastened by hooks to 

 the super cover, and are easily isolated or 

 carried to any distance. I have carried a 

 one-frame with the queen, and about five 

 thousand workers and one hundred drones, 



