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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, animals, civilian personnel, agriculture / food, business / trading / markets, flag / banner / standard, education Description: whole: the five main images are positioned in the upper four-fifths, with a smaller image placed in the lower left, held within a blue circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in black. All set against a white background and held within a light brown border. image: the images depict bee-keepers, involved in various stages in the construction of a bee hive. The smaller image is a Union Flag. text: 1 2 3 4 5 BRITISH HONEY PRODUCTION: No. 2 ASSEMBLING A NEW HIVE A completed hive which contains a very prolific queen - the hive has two brood chambers and three honey chambers, or 'supers' - is shown in picture 1. Pictures 2 and 5 show how the foundations are laid and the hive assembled. The base of the hive should be raised above ground level to prevent rotting and to keep vermin from entering the hive. The brood chamber is fitted over the floorboard, and over the brood chamber the honey chamber, or 'super', is fitted. The roof is then affixed. Picture 3 shows a 'swarm' being taken from a skep hive into a new or clean wooden hive. Picture 4 shows a double-walled type of hive. The space between the inner and outer walls provides additional ventilation and insulation against extreme heat and cold. Canadian red cedar wood should be used for hives as this wood is extremely durable under all weather conditions. In England and Wales there are some 500,000 colonies of bees, and each colony contains from 20,000 to 60,000 bees. Over £4,000,000-worth of fruit is pollinated every year in England and Wales alone - hence the value of bee-keeping to the British farmer. FOR FREEDOM G.P.D. 377/38/22. Object: bee hive, flag | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5160... | Go to resource |
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