FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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•?r\d, my hives are the regular dovetailed. But the frames 

 are Miller frames. 



Fig. 25. — Home from the Out-Apiary, 



LOOSE-HANGING FRAMES. 



For a g^ood many years handling frames was much 

 slower worlf than it is to-day, because for a good many 

 years I had loose-hanging frames. In moving the frames 

 from one side of the hive toward the other, each frame 

 had to be moved separately. It would not do to shove 

 two or more at a time, because in so doing bees would be 

 mashed between the frames. Then when the frames were 

 returned to place each one had to be carefully adjusted, 

 judging by the eye when it was at the right distance from 

 its neighbor. This was slow work, and when done with 

 the utmost care it was only approximately exact. There 

 was no dummy to lift out to make extra room ; and the 

 frames had to be crowded together so as to make room to 

 get a first frame out. That disarranged the spacing of 



