. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. 278 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES room enough in one half of a ten-frame hive. I am not sure that any of them ever need more room through the fall and winter, and in the spring they need no more till more than four frames are needed for brood. With some, this may come quite early, but I think I should be well satisfied if I could get all my colonies to contain four combs well filled with brood by the. Fijj. '105—Weighing Colonies. middle of May. Some of them may have at that time brood in nine or ten frames, but more of them could have all Iheir brood crowded
. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. 278 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES room enough in one half of a ten-frame hive. I am not sure that any of them ever need more room through the fall and winter, and in the spring they need no more till more than four frames are needed for brood. With some, this may come quite early, but I think I should be well satisfied if I could get all my colonies to contain four combs well filled with brood by the. Fijj. '105—Weighing Colonies. middle of May. Some of them may have at that time brood in nine or ten frames, but more of them could have all Iheir brood crowded into three or four combs. ADVANTAGE OF DOUBLE HIVES. Now if, during' the time I have mentioned, we can have two colonies in one hive, we shall, I think, find it advantageous in more than one direction. It is a common thing for beekeepers to unite two weak colonies in the fall. Suppose a beekeeper has two colonies in the fall, each occupying two combs. He unites them so they will winter better. If they would not quarrel and would stay wherever they were put, he could place the two frames of the one hive beside the two frames in the other hive, and the thing would be done. Now, suppose that a thin divi-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Miller, C. C. (Charles C. ), 1831-1920. Medina, Ohio : A. I. Root Co.
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