. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Proper Size of Brood-Chamber—Swarm or Parent Colony for Honey ? BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. A subscriber to the American Bee Journal wishes me to tell through its columns how many standard Langstroth frames I would use in a hive, when working exclusively for comb honey; and also which will do best at producing comb honey, the prime swarm or the old colony, where but one swarm is allowed from each old colony in the spring. As these are reasonable questions, I will try to answer as best 1 can. Regarding the first, I would say that I would use just as many stand
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Proper Size of Brood-Chamber—Swarm or Parent Colony for Honey ? BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. A subscriber to the American Bee Journal wishes me to tell through its columns how many standard Langstroth frames I would use in a hive, when working exclusively for comb honey; and also which will do best at producing comb honey, the prime swarm or the old colony, where but one swarm is allowed from each old colony in the spring. As these are reasonable questions, I will try to answer as best 1 can. Regarding the first, I would say that I would use just as many standard Langstroth frames in the brood-chamber, when working for comb honey, as the queen had occupied with brood when the honey harvest commenced in earnest from clo- ver, basswood, or whatever else gave, iu my locality, a suffl- cient flow of nectar so the bees could make a business of stor- ing surplus honey, according as any one honey tree or plant abounded in the locality where I resided. For this reason I would use a 10-frame Langstroth hive; that is, I would use a hive that would hold 10 Langstroth frames, and have It so ar- ranged that I could reduce it to only a four-frame hive, should I find any queen at the commencement of the honey harvest that would not keep more combs than that number occupied with brood; or a five, six, seven, eight, or nine frame hive, just in accord with the prolificness of the queen. There are a very few queens which will fill 10 Langstroth frame with brood, when they are laying at their best, hence. Offlelal Bird's-Eye View of the Trans-Mlssisslppi and InteriMtional Exposition, Omaha, 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 [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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