. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Good Report from Michigan V\'ith eitVL-n culoiiiess 9 good ones and 2 very weak ones 1 produced ;i,l)00 one pound sections of salable comb honey and increased • to thirty-eight colonies, all strong and in good condition for winter and only had to feed two. Most of my honey was clover and was sold at home at an average of ISJac per lb. I use eight or nine frame hives and run on the double deck plan, setting off upper decks for increase as fast as I get six combs (four of brood and two empty combs and two full sheets of foundation). I give them one or t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Good Report from Michigan V\'ith eitVL-n culoiiiess 9 good ones and 2 very weak ones 1 produced ;i,l)00 one pound sections of salable comb honey and increased • to thirty-eight colonies, all strong and in good condition for winter and only had to feed two. Most of my honey was clover and was sold at home at an average of ISJac per lb. I use eight or nine frame hives and run on the double deck plan, setting off upper decks for increase as fast as I get six combs (four of brood and two empty combs and two full sheets of foundation). I give them one or two supers—bees and all—from the old colony. L. & H. APIARIES, Clarkston, Mich. Dec. 15, 1913. Split Frames and Sections If a frame instead of being gruoved with a wedge was split in the center and a sheet of foundation laid between the two halves and then nailed together well, would it not be a much more substantial job? If the honey sections were split through the center and the super frame laid down on a flat surface, four of the half sections placed in it. then a sheet of foundation of proper size laid on it, then four more halves laid on that and pressed down tight, the whole thing picked up and placed in the super and a separator put in and another frame filled as before and so one until the super is full and then wedge up tight, it seems to me it would be less trouble and a better job. The foundation would certainly be in solid and full. I think the large frames should have the two lower corners clipiied off for an open- ing around the sheet of comb and a hole about ]':. or 2 inches made in the middle, just ai ovc the center so that the l)ees could pass through in winter without having to crawl around the outside of the frame. What do you think of the scheme? Uf course, if it is worth doing, the frames and honey sections should be made in halves at the factory as one could not do a good job after they are already made. Silvis, 111. C CORBIN. The section splittin
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