. Comb honey. Honeycombs; Bees; Honey, Comb. 8 COMB HONEY. ] r-' llilllllilll ] [J C chambers well filled with brood at the beginning of the honey flow, the less skillful beekeeper under similar conditions may be doing well to approximate this condition with a much smaller brood chamber. For comb-honey production the brood chamber should be of such a size that by proper management it may be well filled with brood at the beguming of the honey flow, so that the brood and surplus apartments maybe definitely separated. A brood chamber may be considered too large if by proper management it is not o
. Comb honey. Honeycombs; Bees; Honey, Comb. 8 COMB HONEY. ] r-' llilllllilll ] [J C chambers well filled with brood at the beginning of the honey flow, the less skillful beekeeper under similar conditions may be doing well to approximate this condition with a much smaller brood chamber. For comb-honey production the brood chamber should be of such a size that by proper management it may be well filled with brood at the beguming of the honey flow, so that the brood and surplus apartments maybe definitely separated. A brood chamber may be considered too large if by proper management it is not on an average fairly well filled with brood at the beginning of the honey flow, and too small if it provides an average of less room than the colony is able to occupy with brood previous to the honey flow. Unless the beekeeper practices'^ feeding, a brood chamber that does not con- tain sufficient room for both winter stores and brood rear- ing during late summer and autumn may also be consid- ered too small. It may be well to note that by this standard if the .brood cham- ber seems to be too large the fault may lie in the manage- ment during the previous au- tumn, winter, or spring. Of course the brood chamber that is barely large enough for one colony will be too large for another in the same apiary or the character of the season may be such that aU brood chambers may be too large for best results one season and too small the next, so an average must be sought. While by manipula- tion good results may be secured by the use of any of the sizes in coimnon use, any great departure in either direction from the size best suited to conditions of a given locality necessitates an excessive increase in labor to give best results. There is at the present time 503. Fig. 1.—a 10-frame hive with comb-honey super and pe> forated zinc queen excluder, (rrom Phillips.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabili
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