. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. iii February, 1914. American Vae Journal in sprineor early summer, even if alt avail able space may have been well filled. That may make little or no difference if tlie care- ful beekeeper be right on his job to supply the deficiency. With the inexperienced or careless beekeeper it may make the differ- ence between success and failure. But even the careful beekeeper could feel a little more easy in mind with the larger hive. If the bees be left to their own devices, a col- ony in a 10 frame hive is likely to be stronger than one in a smaller hive, whe
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. iii February, 1914. American Vae Journal in sprineor early summer, even if alt avail able space may have been well filled. That may make little or no difference if tlie care- ful beekeeper be right on his job to supply the deficiency. With the inexperienced or careless beekeeper it may make the differ- ence between success and failure. But even the careful beekeeper could feel a little more easy in mind with the larger hive. If the bees be left to their own devices, a col- ony in a 10 frame hive is likely to be stronger than one in a smaller hive, when the time for the harvest arrives. Taking all these things into consideration, it would seem that the larger hive is the safer to tie to. Now it would be just like you to turn on me and ask why 1 use 8-frame hives. Well. I have them, and it would be Quite a job lo change all my hives and supers. I am used to the extra management needed for an 8- frame hive, and that makes it less objection- able than it would be for a beginner. A lo- frame hive feels a good deal heavier to me now than it did 30 or 40 years ago, so that the matter of weight is a stronger factor with me than it is with the average beekeeper. Yet I sometimes dream that I'd like yet to have a few lo-framers so I could compare them with the smaller hives, and so I could have the fun of feeling easier about the bees running out of stores in winter and spring. Does Presence of Moisture Mean Imperfect Wintering? I am wintering my bees out-of-doors in the following manner: Take off cover, place piece of burlap over frames, place empty comb-honey super on top of this, till with chaff, put cover on top raised one-sixteenth of an inch. I do this to prevent moisture from collecting inside. This does prevent it to a great extent, but even with this pro- tection, when we have a spell of weather with the thermometer down to zero every morning for a week, some frost will collect on the walls and outside frames of hives, and th
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