. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. President and Director E. M'liitcomb. Secretary Dr. A. B. Mason. Vice-President C. A. Hatch. a larger brood-nest than needed, but it is necessary to have it large enough to secure all the brood that can be reared. How much is necessary ? That's the question. All the partisans of small hives say that eight frames are all that an average queen can fill before the honey-flow. After the honey flow has begun, they want the honey to go into the supers instead of being used in the brood-nest. Right here those in favor of large hives say that their queens can
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. President and Director E. M'liitcomb. Secretary Dr. A. B. Mason. Vice-President C. A. Hatch. a larger brood-nest than needed, but it is necessary to have it large enough to secure all the brood that can be reared. How much is necessary ? That's the question. All the partisans of small hives say that eight frames are all that an average queen can fill before the honey-flow. After the honey flow has begun, they want the honey to go into the supers instead of being used in the brood-nest. Right here those in favor of large hives say that their queens can fill from ten to twelve or even six- teen frames, and have a correspondingly large number of field-bees when the llow opens. Why is it so ? We cannot admit that small-brood-nest men (let us call them " small broodists ") have inferior queens. Men like Doolittle, Hutchin- -on, and R. L. Taylor, know what a good queen is, and would have changed their stock long ago if it were so. In fact, Mr. Doolittle"s queens, if they had a chance, would fill the biggest brood-nest ever dreamed of by the Dadants. Perhaps their queens do not fill more than 8-frames because they have 'inlj-that number. I don't think so. If their queens were able to fill more, they would give more. Men of their experience do not make such a mistake, and in fact they have tried and found 8 to be about the right number. But the question remains, Whj' is it that the larg-e broodist's queens can fill 10, 12 and Hi frames instead of only 8 ? After reading all that I could find on the subject; after thinking a good deal and comparing their experience with mine, I saj', unhesitatingly, that it. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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