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Parts of a Modern Beehive 


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The modern home of the bees, the beehive, Is 
shown in its parts by the open illustration 
shown above. 
HIVE-STAND—These protect the bottom and the hive proper from unnecessary exposure to the 
ground and rot, and at the same time provide an easy grade or alighting-board for the con- 
venience of heavily laden bees as they come in from the field. It is, therefore, very important 
to have an easy runway into the hive proper, and hence the hive-stand, provided with an 
alighting-board as shown. 
BOTTOM—This is the floor board. It is equipped with an entrance-contracting cleat that can 
be changed so that a wide or narrow entrance may be used, depending on the season. 
BROOD CHAMBER OR DEEP SUPER—The body of a hive contains brood-combs as shown. This 
is where bees store honey for their winter use. No honey is removed from this part of the 
hive at any time, in order that the bees may have plenty of stores for winter. 
SUPER—This may be arranged for comb or extracted honey, and is the place in which the bees 
store the surplus honey which we take away. Several supers may be piled on top of each 
other during a good honey harvest. The bees must have free access to all the supers at that 
time. 
COVER—This should fit on either the body or the tier of supers. For convenience all parts 
should fit any of the hives so as to be interchangeable. 
BROOD-FRAMES—Movable frames to hold the combs are called “brood-frames.” The tops of 
these have projections resting upon rabbets cut in the upper ends of the hive. 
The end bars of the frames have, near the top, projecting ends just wide enough so that the 
combs will be spaced the correct distance apart. Such self-spacing frames for holding the 
combs are called “Standard frames,” and any of them can be removed and replaced. Another 
set of frames of the same pattern may be used for the storage of surplus honey. These are 
hung in shallow full-depth supers. The honey may be extracted from the combs by means of 
a honey extractor. 
COMB-FOUNDATION—In order to start the bees building their combs centrally in the sections 
or frames, a product known as “comb foundation” is used. This consists of a thin sheet or 
sheets or pure beeswax embossed or favossed, so that the surface shall be an exact duplicate 
of the midrib or center of the honey-comb with the cells sliced off. In other words, comb 
foundation is a duplicate of the foundation of the natural comb, and hence the name. Without 
comb foundation the bees will show a tendency to build their own product in all kinds of 
fantastic shapes—crosswise of the section honey-boxes or the brood-frames. 
WHEN TO START 
Persons starting in beekeeping should plan to get their bees as early in the spring as possible. The best time, of 
course, to start is during fruit blossom time. This may not always be possible. Bee shippers in the south are some- 
times unable to fill orders because of weather conditions which prevent rearing of bees, shortage of labor, etc. The 
hive with frames and foundation should be assembled and ready for the bees upon ARRIVAL. 
Bees are Indispensable in Orchards, Gardens and Pastures 
It is rather significant that there is not an experiment station in the United States that has not at one time or another 
mentioned the valuable and almost indispensable service performed by honeybees in orchards growing apples, 
pears, plums and cherries and in the growing of certain legumes, such as alsike and white clover, as well as sweet 
clover, cucumbers, etc. The Gardener and Farmer can not afford to be without bees. 
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