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THE BEE-HIVES. 



Baiy to look over eveiy part of it. The lielp gained liy being 

 able to handle two or three i'rames at a time is therefore more 

 imaginary than real. 



Mr. E. K. Iioot, 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 Xovember 1st, 190.5, page 1127, acknowledges 

 that the Hoffman frame is uusuited to localities ^^'here much 

 projiolis is used by the bees, owing- to the difficult},' of separat- 

 ing the frames when glued together. 



Another very strong objection which has been raised against 



Fig. 65. 



HOFFM.\N FR.\MES. 



("The A B C ol Dee Culture.") 



the llipffman 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 



