. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. September, 1907. American B^e Journalj Such a depth frame will take regular- sized sheets of super-foundation to fill them, and saves bothering about odd- sized foundation often causing much worry. In fact, our idea should be to have everything of standard size, so that we can get it whenever and from wher- ever we want it. The lo-fraine hive is to be preferred for all localities in the South, and / would use the lo-frame divisible brood- chamber hives in the North, for these can be made into the largest hives, or contraction can be practised at will,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. September, 1907. American B^e Journalj Such a depth frame will take regular- sized sheets of super-foundation to fill them, and saves bothering about odd- sized foundation often causing much worry. In fact, our idea should be to have everything of standard size, so that we can get it whenever and from wher- ever we want it. The lo-fraine hive is to be preferred for all localities in the South, and / would use the lo-frame divisible brood- chamber hives in the North, for these can be made into the largest hives, or contraction can be practised at will, and better results obtained than with an 8-frame hive. Two of the sections for a brood-chamber, as I am using them, are just the same size as the Dadant hive, or the Draper or Jumbo barns. The advantage over these I claim to have, is that I can manipulate my brood- chambers and accomplish results that can not be obtained with deep-frame hives. Two of the sections make an ideal shaped hive for winter, deeper than the Langstroth. As spring advances and honey comes in freely from fruit and other bloom, room is given, not on top, causing the bees to clog the brood-nest, but a section of empty combs is slipped in between the lower and upper sec- tions of the brood-chamber, thus mov- ing the upper one, already partly filled with honey, to the top as the super. Here it is completely filled later, and the bees remodel their brood-nest in the two lower sections. If this is done just preceding the swarming period it will knock swarming in the head to a greater extent than anything else I have been able to find. The secret is to break up the solid mass and crowded condition of the brood- nest, and I know of no better and easier way than simply to slip a section of empty combs between the two halves of the brood-nest. It provides laying- room for the queen, and room for the bees, and you have stronger colonies instead of swarms. XnA when the early wliite honey-flow comes the brood-nest is
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