Identifier: abcofbeeculturec00root (find matches)
Title: The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Root, A. I. (Amos Ives), 1839-1923
Subjects: Bee culture
Publisher: Medina, Ohio
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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ted by the decomposition of con-siderable quantities of chilled brood, if leftin the hive. I can not but think that this isa mistake, and I also think that a greatmany cases are called foul brood that arenothing like it. If we admit it to be a fungoidgrowth, as the best authorities tell us, I donot know how it can originate without thegerms or spores being brought by somemeans, from some locality where it iirevails. and if you are a beginner, or are timid, abt^e-veil. See that your smoker is well go-ing. Approach the hive that you are toopen, and l)low a little smoke into the en-trance. If there is no enamel cloth underthe cover, you will then, of course, pry itloose with a knife or screwdriver, as it willbe fastened down witli propolis. Just themoment the over is loosened, blow thesmoke through the crack ; and while youlift the cover off, blow m re smoke over thetop of the frames. Do not use ti o muchsmoke—enough to quiet the bees. If theyare hjinii^s ynu will have to use more than
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FIG. 1—HOW TO SIT like smallpox, and other diseases of like na-ture. The theory of spontaneous generationof eitlier plant or animal life has for ages,over and over again, fallen to the ground,where the experiments were made with suffi-cient care. Does corn ever grow, where nocorn has Ijeen plaiitedV FRAMES. HOW TO MANIPULATE.Under Fixed Frames I showed tliat thereare two kinds in use—the fixed and the looseframe ; and as the latter is more generallyused, I will describe this first. In the first Iplace, I assume that you have a smoker; * For further description of this cut, see Veils. I ON HIVE-COVER.* for pure Italians, as a matter of course. Themoment the cover is off turn it up edgewise,and sit down on it, milk-stool fashion, asshown in the accompanying cut. To get at the center frame, crowd theframes, one at a time, adjacent to it, to-ward the sides of the hive. This will giveroom to lift out the frame you want. Be-ginners are pretty apt to pull the frame outwithout spacing the

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