. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. or comb supers are alike. The principal claim made for the sectional hive is that nearly all the necessary manipulations are performed by handling the sections of the hive in- stead of the frames individually. This necessarily entails a different system of management from that followed with single brood-chambers. Unless this is understood and taken advantage of it would be folly to use divisible hives because it would require more work to obtain the same results that could be obtained with single brood- chambers. Perhaps one may say that this principa
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. or comb supers are alike. The principal claim made for the sectional hive is that nearly all the necessary manipulations are performed by handling the sections of the hive in- stead of the frames individually. This necessarily entails a different system of management from that followed with single brood-chambers. Unless this is understood and taken advantage of it would be folly to use divisible hives because it would require more work to obtain the same results that could be obtained with single brood- chambers. Perhaps one may say that this principal of hive manipulation may be applied to other hives. That is true, but at the same time not so easily or so well. There is quite a difference between handling shallow chambers all day and deep ones. The ease of hand- ling the sectional hive makes it particu- larly adapted to lady beekeepers. This hive is also claimed to possess the particular advantage of being a large or small hive at the option of the owner. It can be enlarged for the strongest colony or reduced in size for the weakest. It also permits of a more gradual expansion to keep pace with the increasing size of the colony. Sec- tional hive beekeepers claim that bees do more and better work if less room is given at a time, and given oftener; also, the room given is in the most ac- cessible form for use, shallow and spread out wide, as near to the brood- chamber as it is possible to get it. Louis Scholl says: " A satisfactory hive must be so constructed that it can Fig. 2.—The Heddon Sectional Hive- Underside The sectional hive used by J. E. Hand is similar to the Heddon in principle. The frame is iVs inches deep by 17;s inches long. Instead of thumbscrews one side of the section is made with a removablefollower board which is held in place with Van Deusen hive clamps, but this follower board is only three- fourths the depth of the section. The remaining space is taken up by a perm- anent wooden strip which hol
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