Archive image from page 25 of Dadant system of beekeeping (1920). Dadant system of beekeeping dadantsystemofbe00dada Year: 1920 10 DADAXT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING combs over those hives, in the spring, the queens would go up into those supers and lay eggs, after they had filled the lower story. Mr. Dadant senior then tried Quinby hives of different capicities, up to 20 frames of comb, or with a capacity of 3780, square inches of comb. These were too large by all means, Fig. 7. Twenty frame Dadant hive tried by Charles Dadant and although we used some 40 of them for several years, we could onl
Archive image from page 25 of Dadant system of beekeeping (1920). Dadant system of beekeeping dadantsystemofbe00dada Year: 1920 10 DADAXT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING combs over those hives, in the spring, the queens would go up into those supers and lay eggs, after they had filled the lower story. Mr. Dadant senior then tried Quinby hives of different capicities, up to 20 frames of comb, or with a capacity of 3780, square inches of comb. These were too large by all means, Fig. 7. Twenty frame Dadant hive tried by Charles Dadant and although we used some 40 of them for several years, we could only produce honey on what was later called 'the long idea,' that is to say we had both brood and surplus honey in the same apartment. Although the colony usually occupied one side of the hive with brood, the queen often roamed from one end of the hive to the other and honey sometimes had to be extracted from combs containing brood, a very undesirable arrangement. To give the reader an idea of the number of hive ex- periments made by the senior Dadant, we will say that he tried hives with frames 18x18 inches, looking like regular barns.
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