FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



87 



END-SPACING. 



The end-spaeiug is done by means of the usual frame 

 staple, about three-eighths of an inch .wide. The staple is 

 driven into the end-bar, immediately under the lug of the top- 

 bar. This lug being only half an inch long, there is room for a 

 bee to pass between the end of the lug and the upper edge of 

 the hive-end, so no pi-opolis is deposited there. I like this fea- 

 ture as much as some dislike it. They complain that with so 



Fig. 



-Weed Brushes. 



short a top-bar the frames drop down in the hive, a nuisance 

 not to be tolerated. I do not have this trouble, although the 

 hold of the top-bar on the tin support is so slight that if the 

 work were not exact I can easily imagine the frames dropping 

 there. Possibly those who complain do not have very exact 

 work. I am not sure but I would rather put up with a little 

 dropping down of frames, rather than to have the ends of the 

 top-bars glued. 



It will be seen that while the frames are automatically 

 spaced very firmly, the points of contact are so small that the 

 frames are always easily movable. These points of contact are 



