. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. December, 1916. 417 American Hee Journal side and the exchange made in less time than it takes to tell it. This, by the way, tallies one for loose-hanging frames. With the Hoffman or any self-spacing frame it would not work so well, but it could be done. While the subject of exchanging combs is under discussion, I wish to give my younger beekeeping brothers, who have not yet stocked up with bee- supplies to any great extent, a few hints from long years of experience. When an apiary is once started, when we are once stocked up with an outfit running in
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. December, 1916. 417 American Hee Journal side and the exchange made in less time than it takes to tell it. This, by the way, tallies one for loose-hanging frames. With the Hoffman or any self-spacing frame it would not work so well, but it could be done. While the subject of exchanging combs is under discussion, I wish to give my younger beekeeping brothers, who have not yet stocked up with bee- supplies to any great extent, a few hints from long years of experience. When an apiary is once started, when we are once stocked up with an outfit running into the hundreds of hives and appliances, it is an expensive and trou- blesome affair to make a change in one form or another. In planning our future work our main object should be to adopt ways and means which are likely to give permanent satisfaction according to our best judgment, tak- ing all points into consideration. A short time ago a young beekeeper, or, if I am justified by the run of his conversation to consider him a " con- templating" beekeeper, called on me for a few pointers on various subjects. He intends to compromise between the low .5-inch and the full sized 9 or 10 inch extracting super by constructing one about 7K inches deep, because he considers the former too low and the latter too deep. This is very well in some respects; he may gain some an- ticipated advantages by doing so. But after long years of experience I would under no consideration deviate from my fixed rule of uniformity, both in frames and outsides. The advantages gained by varying in form or size would in no way compensate for those lost by irregular construction. The above described easy manner of feed- ing for winter stores would not be possible without this uniformity. Then, again, it is many times desirable to move, for certain purposes, combs of brood from the brood-chamber to the super above the excluder, which is fre- quently done to cure slight attacks of foulbrood. Another a
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