. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. 446 HONEY PRODUCTION. began to have trouljle from combs breaking down. It was due, perhaps, mainly to the bees having too much surplus room. .Some sections "n'oulil lie fillecl with a nice comb of honey, not ^-ery strongly attached at the top, yevy little at the side, and not at all at the liottom. Aside from depending upon crowd- ing the bees to make them fill the sections, I wanted a plan wliereby I could lie sure of having tlie sections fastened at the liottom as well as at the top. I tried to take partly filled sections out of the supers
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. 446 HONEY PRODUCTION. began to have trouljle from combs breaking down. It was due, perhaps, mainly to the bees having too much surplus room. .Some sections "n'oulil lie fillecl with a nice comb of honey, not ^-ery strongly attached at the top, yevy little at the side, and not at all at the liottom. Aside from depending upon crowd- ing the bees to make them fill the sections, I wanted a plan wliereby I could lie sure of having tlie sections fastened at the liottom as well as at the top. I tried to take partly filled sections out of the supers and reversing them, and went so far as to invent a reversible super. I abandoned this, however, and adopted the plan of putting a starter in the bottom as well as at the top of the ; ("A Year Among the ;). Pig. 198. TOP AND BOTTOM STARTERS. (Forty Tears Among the Bees.) Between tlie publication of "A Year Among the Bees," and that of "Forty Years Among the Bees," both by the same author. Doctor C. C. Miller had seventeen years of practice of comb honey production, on a very large scale and Avith extraordinary results. The reader will readily agree with ns that liis opinion has great value. He insists that top and. 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 Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. , Dadant & sons
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