. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 11 I'MJ' 305 American liee Journal Ihoir iiivciilors to be superior lo the Quinby and Langstroth patterns, but simply ran against a Gibraltar without having made any impression except to shrink the contents of the parties' purses who invested in these so-called improvements. The greatest harm that has ever come to the I angstroth and Quinby hives has come through cutting good lumber into worthless fragments, and tacking them together as a part of a Langstroth oi Quinby hive. The same is also true of hives frequently made of store-boxes and not p
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 11 I'MJ' 305 American liee Journal Ihoir iiivciilors to be superior lo the Quinby and Langstroth patterns, but simply ran against a Gibraltar without having made any impression except to shrink the contents of the parties' purses who invested in these so-called improvements. The greatest harm that has ever come to the I angstroth and Quinby hives has come through cutting good lumber into worthless fragments, and tacking them together as a part of a Langstroth oi Quinby hive. The same is also true of hives frequently made of store-boxes and not put together in a workmanlike manner. But one feature more about the sec- tional hive, which strikes me as a mat- ter of doubtful propriety, is the top- bar of a frame in an under section, and the bottom-bar of the frame of an up- per section, with the open space be- tween them. .Ml added together amount to nearly one bee-space between the combs of the upper and lower sections. That the queen will not ascend to the upper section as long as she can find space below to lay eggs is a fact. And when she does finally go above in search of laying room, she will be very slow in returning to the section below. The trutli about the matter is that a queen when left to be guided by her natural instincts prefers more than S or 6 inches deep, as is so often ob- served when she lias long, deep combs at her disposal. In such cases she will invariably lay eggs in a circle, and go from one comb to another on either side from the comb in .which she began laying; thus placing the developing brood in globe form, which is the best possible shape for a colony of bees to place themselves in, to economize the warmth they generate. This in a shal- low sectional hive they can not do un- less the bee-keeper is ever on the alert to supply an upper section, which the bees and queen will, through force of circumstances, enter. But on acc(iunt of a bar below and one above, with a 5-16 space betw
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