The apiary; or, bees, bee-hives, and bee culture [1878]: being a familiar account of the habits of bees, and the most improved methods of managementNeighbor, Alfred
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The apiary; or, bees, bee-hives, and bee culture [1878]: being a familiar account of the habits of bees, and the most improved methods of management
Neighbours' "Sectional Super" is the last of our series. The attention
of apiarians has been so much turned of late years towards a cheap and
compact receptacle for honeycombs intended for deprivation, that we
have introduced this last invention, which is very much on the same
plan as the preceding, but the longitudinal divisions are again divided
across, forming boxes, as shown in the figure. Each section is about
two inches wide, seven long, and four and a half to five deep; it will
contain about two pounds of honey in the comb. This is a convenient
quantity for placing on the table or for purposes of presentation. The
fourteen sections occupy the same space as the seven divisions of the
preceding. Any number can however be used according to the size of the
hive: the Philadelphia hive, for instance, has space for eighteen.
Again, any single section can be removed when full, and another
substituted.
Each section has a saw-cut in the crown for the insertion of wax
strips. The queen-preventing zinc adapter can also be used. Observe
the caution given in the second paragraph of the description of the
divisional super, just above.
§ VII. EKES AND NADIRS.
We allude to these for the sake of explaining the terms, and as they
are adjuncts sometimes recommended for temporary enlargement. They are
further contrivances for the prevention of swarming, but they differ
from supers in being added below instead of above the stock hive.
Briefly, an eke is a half-hive so added, and a nadir an entire one.
An example of an eke is sometimes met with when a common skep is cut
horizontally in half, and the lower portion placed beneath an entire
skep hive. For an instance of a nadir we have only to refer to the
Stewarton hive. Ekes and nadirs give increased room to the bees, but
they of course do not answer the purpose of supers in providing honey
free from the admixture of brood.
§ VIII. IMPRESSED WAX SHEETS.
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