The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . d-chamber to its normal capacity, andallows the bees to fill their biood-combswith the darker honey, which is just as goodf(»r brood-rearing, but not as salable. The tendency of the times is ratheragainst contraction. The eight-frame Lang-stroth hive is now being used very largely;and ill a great many localitie
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . d-chamber to its normal capacity, andallows the bees to fill their biood-combswith the darker honey, which is just as goodf(»r brood-rearing, but not as salable. The tendency of the times is ratheragainst contraction. The eight-frame Lang-stroth hive is now being used very largely;and ill a great many localities it is not neces-sary to contract this lirood-chamber. Inother ocalities it may lie necessary to re-move a {oui)le of frames. But in any case itis seldom (lesiral)le to contract the lirood-nest to less than six frames. WHEN TO CONTRACT. Those who advocate and practice contrac-tion, I believe, encourage brood-rearing justbefore the honey-flow by every availablemeans; that is, they aim to get their colo-nies into as strong working condition aspossible. When the honey-flow commencesthe brood-chaml)er is contracted so as tomake a very large part of the bees spendtheir whole energies in honey-getting andthe storage of said honey not in the brood-combs, but in the
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