Elements of Beekeeping 5 



up. The type of hive adopted as the standard and used by the 

 best beekeepers is the Langstroth which may be obtained from 

 any reliable dealer in beekeepers' supplies. The Langstroth 

 hive is a dovetailed box with top and bottom and contains eight 

 or ten movable frames. These frames contain comb foundation 

 (thin sheets of beeswax with impressions of the base of worker 

 tells and are equally spaced so there is just room enough for 

 the bees to pass between them. This hive body is called the 

 brood-chamber ; here the eggs are laid, the young bees are reared 

 and honey for the colony is stored. 



mill |iiiiii| -TrTTm 



ml M 



iiiiiiii iiiiiiii 



n™ l™ 



/^ 



v_y 



Pig-. 2— Queen-excluder. 



Fig-. 3— Bee-escape and board. 



cap" by bee- 

 is a box which 



Supers. The super, commonly called the 

 keepers who still use the box-hive and tree ' ' gum, 

 is placed on top of the brood-chamber, for the storage of surplus 

 honey. There are two kinds; the section super, containing 

 wooden sections and used in the production of box honey, and 

 the shallow extracting-super containing frames similar to those 

 of the brood-chamber, only much shallower, and used either in 

 the production of ''chunk" or bulk comb-honey or extracted 

 or "strained" honey. Many of the larger apiarists use extra 



