. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 208 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Langstroth -ten frames are nearer right than eight, according to my views. —W. M. Barnum. I don't know. I would answer the question by trying the experiment, if I wanted to know.—Eugene Secor. I think there would be little differ- ence, the advantage, if any, being with the combs of honey.—J. A. Green. Use the filled combs, every time. I never yet saw the populous colony that was supplied with too much honey.—C. H. Dibbern. I would prefer the dummies, as it will take bees to cover and look after the honey, and not so with the
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 208 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Langstroth -ten frames are nearer right than eight, according to my views. —W. M. Barnum. I don't know. I would answer the question by trying the experiment, if I wanted to know.—Eugene Secor. I think there would be little differ- ence, the advantage, if any, being with the combs of honey.—J. A. Green. Use the filled combs, every time. I never yet saw the populous colony that was supplied with too much honey.—C. H. Dibbern. I would prefer the dummies, as it will take bees to cover and look after the honey, and not so with the dummies.— Mrs. Jennie Atchley. The dummies, unless they carry some of the two combs above. The reason would be that the dummies would re- lease the bees necessary to warm and guard two frames of honey.—S. I. Free- born. The question is wholly theoretical ; the only way to determine it, in my judgment, will be to make a trial test, but even then the fact that seasons vary so much in the honey yield, that a test would be very uncertain. I should in- cline to the dummy, though.—J. E. Pond. I cannot see how there could be any difference. If there is honey to be gath- ered, and there are bees to gather it, and there is room to store it, it will be gathered and stored; and bees can store no more honey in combs that are full than they can in a pine board.—M. Maiiin. If you put the two frames of honey into the brood-nest, the bees will very likely move the honey into the sections —at least a part of it. Combs of honey are better than dummies. If you can take two empty combs out of each hive, your queen is not doing her duty. Get a better strain of bees. Try the Car- niolans.—E. France. The filled combs, every time. But if in your locality you have an early honey- flow, and a fall hoaey-flow, and honey enough can be secured by the bees be- tween the two harvests to keep the col- nies in good condition, you may save the expense of the two " filled " combs,
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