. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 595 fi?7rjjj<r7?ir7K"^"???«'?l?? 7?^"^. tti!fe >iii!t!!V- >!otte>!>(>i>( >t>(>tx xt/ xV >l»( xV >tx xt^ >tj , DEEP FRAMES VS. STORIFYING. A Possible Compromise Between Eight and Ten Frame Hives. Locality ^ot Enough Considered. BY F. L. THOMPSON. On page 367 of " Gleanings," the editor suggested increasing the capacity of the 8-frame hive when desired by adding another 8-frame story. I tried the scheme on about a dozen colonies the past season, adding the additional s
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 595 fi?7rjjj<r7?ir7K"^"???«'?l?? 7?^"^. tti!fe >iii!t!!V- >!otte>!>(>i>( >t>(>tx xt/ xV >l»( xV >tx xt^ >tj , DEEP FRAMES VS. STORIFYING. A Possible Compromise Between Eight and Ten Frame Hives. Locality ^ot Enough Considered. BY F. L. THOMPSON. On page 367 of " Gleanings," the editor suggested increasing the capacity of the 8-frame hive when desired by adding another 8-frame story. I tried the scheme on about a dozen colonies the past season, adding the additional stories about May 1st. At the opening of the honey-flow more than half had considerably more brood than they could have had in a single 8-frame story. One had 12 frames of brood, one 11, and two or three 10, while the average could not have been less than 7, and was probably more. But such hives are very cumbersome to look into, or to handle in any way as a whole. Storifying with half-depth frames throughout would be better. I experienced one objection to storifying, however, which I have never seen stated in print. In raising up an upper story, I broke open as fine a queen-cell as I ever saw, which had been built so as to be fastened to frames in both stories, I found the queen failing, and not another cell in the hive. Later another cell was started, and a queen reared, but egg-laying was suspended for some time, and the colony is not now so strong. These colonies were given work to do in building brood-combs by inserting empty frames after the flow had commenced. I do not see how they could profitably be used for comb honey. The average capacity of a queen, when the flow is not too early, may exceed that of an 8-frame chamber, but cannot attain to a 16-frame one. Some of the crop would have to be in the form of extracted honey, and the bees would be loth to go above. For producing both comb and extracted in the same hive, shallow extracting-frames would be much better, so a
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