. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American Hee Journal | April, 1915. is disturbing them, or that they are trou- bled with diarrhea. In the latter case a good tlight the first warm day will cure them, unless, indeed, they have unwhole- some stores which will keep up the trouble more or less until warm weather comes. Shallow Divisible Hives For some time I have been reading period- icals and catalogs treating on beehive oquipments and their relative merits. 1 have decided that a divisible hive consist- ing of shallow frames and supers, one. two. or three, according to the strength of t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American Hee Journal | April, 1915. is disturbing them, or that they are trou- bled with diarrhea. In the latter case a good tlight the first warm day will cure them, unless, indeed, they have unwhole- some stores which will keep up the trouble more or less until warm weather comes. Shallow Divisible Hives For some time I have been reading period- icals and catalogs treating on beehive oquipments and their relative merits. 1 have decided that a divisible hive consist- ing of shallow frames and supers, one. two. or three, according to the strength of the queen, is about what I want. Is it a practi- cal combination ? I see in the A B C and -\ Y Z of Bee Culture a divisible hive used by J E. Hand that looks good. Does he still use a divisible hive and recommend it? I see in the American Hee Journal he uses a i6-frame hive. Is it brought about by verti- cal or horizontal expansion ? The hrst by placing eight frames on top of eight or side by side sixteen in all. I wish to winter out- of-doors, and think I can make a warm hive of the shallow frames and supers by con- tracting the brood-nest horizontally with a tight division-board on each side and pack- ing between them and the outside; the ends being closed. Onondaga. Answer.—I doubt the advisability of your trying shallow or divisible chamber hives. To be sure some good beekeepers use them, but the majority of beekeepers prefer a frame not less than the Langstroth. and some like a still larger frame. K Position of Frames in Nuclei In making nuclei, which of these methods would you recommend; I Two frames of brood, then one frame of honey then division-board, all at one side of the hive body, with rest of space vacant ? -• Two frames of brood, one frame ot honey, at one side of the hive body, with rest of space filled with frames of founda- '3"two frames of brood in center of hive, frame of honey on one side, frame of drawn comb or honey on the other, with frames of fo
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