. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. HIVES 247 HIVES. may need. Your eight-frame hive gives hei' too much I'oom at once when it is doubled in size. If the season is a little oool, there is a chance of delay- ing the bleeding-by chilling the combs. The bees will then concentrate themselves upon the brood and Iteep it within narrow limits, for the queen will seldom go out of the cluster to laj\ As to the matter of wintering, these jum- bo hives seem to offer exceptional a
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. HIVES 247 HIVES. may need. Your eight-frame hive gives hei' too much I'oom at once when it is doubled in size. If the season is a little oool, there is a chance of delay- ing the bleeding-by chilling the combs. The bees will then concentrate themselves upon the brood and Iteep it within narrow limits, for the queen will seldom go out of the cluster to laj\ As to the matter of wintering, these jum- bo hives seem to offer exceptional advan- tages. Mr. Dadant, in one of liis articles, says : The facts upon which I base mj- conclusion are those that we have seen under our own eyes, of bet- ter success in wintering the large deep hive. We have thus stronger colonies for winter, which is In the preference. There can be no sort o^ doubt that these large hives, for extracted honey, have some advantages over the small- er ones; but when it comes to the production of comb honey, then there is a question, and a big one too—Is such a large hive as good as a smaller one V In some localities the bees might till only a brood-nest in such a hive; whereas if a shallower one were used, like the Danzenbaker or Heddon, the available comb space below would be tilled with brood ; and the honey, when it did come in, and what little there was of it, would be forced into the supers. In tlie selection of a. DADANT-QuiNBY HIVE.—Froni '?'Lcingstroth on the Honey-Bee, Revised,^'' by Badant. itself a great advantage, as the nurabei' of bees has much to do with their ability to keep warm,and their ability to retain the heat has also much to do with their honey consumption. A weak colony suffei-s much from the cold, and is compelled to eat more. • But to me the greatest advantage of the deep large frame is the greater ease bees have in reaching the honey while preserving a more compact cluster. LARGE hives; WHERE AND UNDER WHAT CIR
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