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THE BEE-HI\'ES. 



sary to look over every part of it. The help gained by being 

 able to handle two or three frames at a time is therefore more 

 imaginary than real. 



Mr. E. R. Root, the well-known editor of Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture, who has been the most active supporter of this frame, 

 in reply to a correspondent who complained of the frame, in 

 Gleanings for November 1st, 1905, page 1127, acknowledges 

 that the Hoffman frame is unsuited to localities where much 

 Ijropolis is used by the bees, owing to the difficulty of separat- 

 ing the frames when glued together. 



Another very strong objection which has been raised against 



Fig. 65. 



HOFFMAN FRAMES. 



('•The A B C of Bee Culture.") 



the Hoffman frame is that it cannot be manufactured in a 

 small shop, as it requires special tools to manufacture it. This 

 may not have much weight with the up-to-date Apiarist, but 

 it has been our aim to recommend the simplest and most 

 practical implements, if effective, and we consider this ob- 

 jection as a weighty one, when added to other objections. The 

 main desideratum attained by the use of the Hoffman frame, 

 namely the spacing of the combs in a practical and stable 



