On Tue 22 Jul, Tom Speight wrote:
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, Automatic digest
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> >Aaron Morris wrote:
> >>
> >> The discussion of width of hive opening has touched on ventillation,
> >> which has also been discussed a bit on this list.
>
> Ventilation is not the same as draught. How many of you open a window
> for ventilation, but find there's a draught if someone opens a door at
> the same time?
> A friend of mine (also a beekeeper) lives in an old house with bee-boles
> (for the unknowing, recesses in walls where straw skeps were kept out of
> the rain and other inclement weather).
> In the cellar of the house were found 'bee slates' that the hives stood
> on. These are usually made of wood, but being about 800 meters from the
> largest slate quarry in Europe, it must have been easier to use the
> local materials.
> >From memory, the slates are about 450-500mm in diameter, with a lip for
> the bees to land on. The unusual thing about them is that they have a
> hole about 150mm diameter in the centre. No one knows what the holes are
> for, but bottom ventilation would seem a good bet.
> Any other suggestions for them?
>
> --
> Tom Speight
>
>
 
Mabee toilet seats tom??
 
 
 Stewart
Cumbria, UK. (an old Gable-Endie)