. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. isyi. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 659 Any sized hive can be used, but the hive that I have used for the past 20 years with the best of sucoess (havinR at times over 300 colonies in theui) is 14 inches square, inside, and 12 inches high, using a frame 10^x13;.^ inches, outside meas- ure. The advantages of this hive are : First, a natural brood-chamber; the cover shutting upon the honey-boards hermetically closes the top of the hive, and prevents all escape of heat from the brood-chamber, enabling a colony to build up faster. Secoud, the frames are self-s
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. isyi. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 659 Any sized hive can be used, but the hive that I have used for the past 20 years with the best of sucoess (havinR at times over 300 colonies in theui) is 14 inches square, inside, and 12 inches high, using a frame 10^x13;.^ inches, outside meas- ure. The advantages of this hive are : First, a natural brood-chamber; the cover shutting upon the honey-boards hermetically closes the top of the hive, and prevents all escape of heat from the brood-chamber, enabling a colony to build up faster. Secoud, the frames are self-spacing, and when the hive is closed it is ready to be moved to an out-apiary. Third, ease of manipulation. Fourth, its adaptability to either comb or extracted honey; in comb honey there being less burr-comb and travel- stain ; in extracted, ease of handling, and strength of frame. honey-flow has been a god-send to our bee-keepers, for the greater portion of our bees did very little the early part of the season ; in fact, we had some very peculiar conditions during last winter and spring. Lart year there was considerable foul brood, and much of the so-called pickled brood. This caused many weak colonies at the beginning of winter. Then we had most zero weather in November, and many of the bees failed to build up, and many colonies that were strong were smothered by being sealed or packt air-tight. The bees sweat to that extent that they were as wet as a dish-rag in the hive. The air becomes foul, and when the temperature gets down low, the bees in this humid condition cannot leave the cluster to seek the honey, and they die of starvation with the honey almost touching them ; when the bee-keeper opens the hives in the spring, he finds his bees dead, and the interior of the. Hive of Cyrus C. Aldrlch, of Riverside Co., Calif. together with the absence of propolis, as the hooks that hold the frames are protected from propolis by the honey-boards. I invite investigation and comparis
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