. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 263 long and earnest discussion as to whether the hive entrance should be at the side or end of the hive, or, more properly, whether the sides of the combs should be toward the en- trance or the ends towards it. The arguments had wholly to do with temperatures, the side entrance being called the "warm" and the end the "; Then some gentle and sym- pathetic soul put a spoke in the v/heel by saying that the bees could reach any desired part of the hive easier and quicker with the ends of frames to entran
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 263 long and earnest discussion as to whether the hive entrance should be at the side or end of the hive, or, more properly, whether the sides of the combs should be toward the en- trance or the ends towards it. The arguments had wholly to do with temperatures, the side entrance being called the "warm" and the end the "; Then some gentle and sym- pathetic soul put a spoke in the v/heel by saying that the bees could reach any desired part of the hive easier and quicker with the ends of frames to entrance than the other way, as if time or labor was of con- sequence to bees. So the supply men settled on the end way. But not so all beekeepers, some wise ones stuck to the side way. Some who were wise or otherwise used two en- trances, the second one being an inch hole bored half way up the front of the hive. To avoid raising the issue of rela- tive warmth, let me say right here that my present remarks have to do with the condition of the combs and position of stores as affected by loca- tion of entrance. Size of entrance also enters into consideration of the case, as does the space below the frames. For sundry reasons a space of about one inch below frames is pretty generally considered to be as little as desirable. It is what I use and the conditions I shall describe are with such space. ?With a full entrance it is the habit of bees in the fall to cut away the lower part of the combs adjacent to the entrance, the wax secured being used in capping and re-enforcing combs elsewhere in the hive. After the combs get old and leathery this cutting is not so apparent, but the mischief to the combs occurs long before they get tough and black. Where the combs are end to the entrance the lower front corners are cut away, often for two or three inches back and up. The following spring that space is filled with drone comb. If combs get turned end for end the other corner gets cut away, and
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