. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 102 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Feb. 18, be given abundant roona for the display of her powers by ex- changing combs between the stronger and weaker colonies. This line of thought would seem to fix our choice of hives on the eight-frame Langstroth, but it has points which fail to give satisfaction when it is proposed to put contraction in force, about June 10. Still this contraction, which, in prac- tice, is largely confined to swarms, can be accomplisht with this hive by removing three of "the frames and filling the vacant space with dummies. This
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 102 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Feb. 18, be given abundant roona for the display of her powers by ex- changing combs between the stronger and weaker colonies. This line of thought would seem to fix our choice of hives on the eight-frame Langstroth, but it has points which fail to give satisfaction when it is proposed to put contraction in force, about June 10. Still this contraction, which, in prac- tice, is largely confined to swarms, can be accomplisht with this hive by removing three of "the frames and filling the vacant space with dummies. This accomplishes the desired contraction, but it also contracts the upper surface of the brood-nest. This is not desirable, since, for the best work in the sections, it is necessary that the heat and the aroma of the brood-nest should ascend freely to all parts of the section- case. At this point I am sometimes moved to pray those who are so sure they can breed the swarming instinct out of the bees, to breed out also the disposition to build combs perpen- dicularly, and bring them to build their combs horizontally. With this accomplisht we would have the perfection hive in- deed—simply frames piled horizontally on the top of one another with the ability to make its capacity suit the colony or the apiarist by simply removing or adding frames without In any way affecting the desirable qualities of the hive. If this should fail, will some one give us a hive composed of sec- tions about three inches in depth which may readily be placed one above another without bee-spaces between them and yet without crushing bees. I want them so they could be easily f urnisht with foundation for the combs, but I would not care to have the combs movable. In the absence of this, we have as the nearest approach to it the Heddon hive with sections approaching six inches In depth. The sections have bee- spaces, but the spaces are not undesirable when the sections are of that depth. As each section of th
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