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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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bars of a dummy fi'ame. The regilar brood- 

 frame pi'oper, instead of having one end- bar 

 at each end, had several of them, as will be 

 seen by the larger illustration. Only the 

 outside entl-bar is closed-end. One of these 

 slatted dummies is set down between each 

 pair of brood-frames. 



Now you ask, "What is this for?" Sim- 

 ply to give a clustering-space one inch thick 

 of bees between each set of frames. In oth- 

 er words, Mr. Aspinwall spreads his brood- 



nest by increasing the space between each 

 frame one inch instead of the ordinary reg- 

 ular bee-space. Of course, this inch space 

 would be tilled with brace comb were it not 

 for the slats bee-spaced apart on a perpen- 

 dicular line, the edges being next to the 

 brood itself. It is because of this clustering- 

 space between the frames, and because bees 

 have more room through which they may 

 pass up into the supers, according to the in- 

 ventor, that all possible swarming is re- 





ASPINWALL HIVE DISSECTED — MR. BURT STANDING IN THE BACKGROUND. 



