. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 128 American liee Jonrnal April, 1915. )>^^ f here it is not needed. At first Mr. Hand told us that his hive was 20x2(j inches, but now he says 20x24, but the latter holds but 14 frames at l^i inch spacing, and a heavy dummy. A point apparently over- looked by Mr. Hand is that if one is to use a very large hive, then by all means make it wide enough so two 8-frame hive bodies, side by side, may be used for supers, as in this way good use may be had for tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment now in the hands of beekeepers. This is a point o
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 128 American liee Jonrnal April, 1915. )>^^ f here it is not needed. At first Mr. Hand told us that his hive was 20x2(j inches, but now he says 20x24, but the latter holds but 14 frames at l^i inch spacing, and a heavy dummy. A point apparently over- looked by Mr. Hand is that if one is to use a very large hive, then by all means make it wide enough so two 8-frame hive bodies, side by side, may be used for supers, as in this way good use may be had for tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment now in the hands of beekeepers. This is a point of almost supreme importance, as beekeepers cannot afford to discard such valuable equipment. This would call for a hive 20x27;'4 inches, or 20x28 holding 17 frames with I'/i spacing, or 18 frames l)i spacing, allowing for a dummy if the latter spacing is used. Or the hive could be made a little narrower, allowing the 8-frame bodies used as supers to pro- ject ^s to yi inch on each side. How- ever, the writer has serious doubts about the 17-frame hive being a comb- honey hive, unless the brood-nest be contracted and the comb honey all produced in the super. We also find that, unless the flow is very good, the plan of alternating extracting combs and wide frames of sections is a fail- ure in producin comb honey. Let us examine the claims originally made for this hive. 1st. A brood-chamber of a capacity to develop the fertility of queens suffi- ciently to check the swarming impulse and bring the colony on the stage of action with the strongest force of bees possible. True, ihis large hive will tend to df/ay swarming, and in some localities totally to prevent it. And certainly the hive with 16 or 17 frames, as originally described, is large enough to rear a giant force for the flow. 2d. "Spontaneous prevention of ; If I understand Mr. Hand's later articles it is eventually abandoned, but would hold good in many locali- ties, though unfortunately not in this immed
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