. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. ^IUTT^ lEflW. VOL. in, FLINT, ICHieM, MAY 10, 1890, SO. 5. Large Hives, Combs and Colonies.—How the Dadants Raise, Extract, Handle and Sell Their Honey. CHAS. DADANT. ^ LONG practice and a careful com- parison of different hives and meth- ods have convinced us that success in bee culture is based on two condi- tions: 1st, a yreat number bf bees at the right time: and, 2nd, a spacious room to receive their harvest. ()ur comparative experiments have taught us also that a hive ought to be large enough to accommodate the laying of the most pro- lific queen,
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. ^IUTT^ lEflW. VOL. in, FLINT, ICHieM, MAY 10, 1890, SO. 5. Large Hives, Combs and Colonies.—How the Dadants Raise, Extract, Handle and Sell Their Honey. CHAS. DADANT. ^ LONG practice and a careful com- parison of different hives and meth- ods have convinced us that success in bee culture is based on two condi- tions: 1st, a yreat number bf bees at the right time: and, 2nd, a spacious room to receive their harvest. ()ur comparative experiments have taught us also that a hive ought to be large enough to accommodate the laying of the most pro- lific queen, even if she is able to lay 5,000 eggs daily ; and that, to get the greatest number of bees ready for the spring crop, it is indispensable to begin preparations the preceding summer. Let me remark that I write from one standpoint, white clover, which begins to bloom here between the I'Hth of May and the .'ith of June, being our main crop. A backwardness in the laying of our queens would deprive us of the harvest, since the lindens are very scarce around oilr apiaries. The conclusion of the foregoing is that we allow our queens a full freedom to lay all summer, reckoning it a bad policy to spare a few pounds of honey by contracting the brood nest, as advocated by some bee keep- ers, or by extracting from the brood cham- ber. B> our method the colonies are ready to profit by a casual crop in the fall, and the hives contain a provision of fine spring honey to winter on. It follows that a large number of Ijees, at the end of the winter, have survived to warm a wide disk of comb, in which the queen can lay abundantly as early as the weather will allow. We have found this method as good for raising comb honey as for extracted, and used it long before the invention of Hursch- ka ; the bees being as crowded in a large hive, when its queen lays more than 4,000 eggs daily, as in a small hive, where she has room for only 2,000, and as ready to climb into the surplus boxes without bein
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