. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American ISae Journal W^^^E KkH'-X^ ? ? ?- T ocfor Miller. Send Questions either to the oilice or the American Bee .Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. C^^ Dr. Miller does 7iot answer Questions by mail. Best Hive Paraphernalia to Start With 1. What hive-body should I use—an 8 frame era 10? 2. What should the supers be fitted with— T-tins or section-holders? slatted or plain separators? bee-way or no bee-way sections? 3. What make of hive should I start out with? Michigan. Answers.—1. For extracted honey 10 frames, every time. For sections,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American ISae Journal W^^^E KkH'-X^ ? ? ?- T ocfor Miller. Send Questions either to the oilice or the American Bee .Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. C^^ Dr. Miller does 7iot answer Questions by mail. Best Hive Paraphernalia to Start With 1. What hive-body should I use—an 8 frame era 10? 2. What should the supers be fitted with— T-tins or section-holders? slatted or plain separators? bee-way or no bee-way sections? 3. What make of hive should I start out with? Michigan. Answers.—1. For extracted honey 10 frames, every time. For sections, maybe 8, maybe 10. Unless you expect to pay the closest attention to your bees, there is too much danger of starvation with so small a brood-chamber as 8 frames, but with fullest attention and the right kind of management you may sometimes do a little better with the smaller hive for comb honey. So long as the frames are the same, it is not a very hard matter to change from one size of hive, so it might not be a bad plan to try each. 2. After trying different ones, I have set- tled down on T-supers, plain wood separators, and 4,',4 bee-way sections. Of course, you many not agree with me. I'm only saying what I think is best for me. 3. You will hardly go astray to take the hive most in use by men who keep bees for the money that can be gotten out of the busi- ness, and more of them seem agreed upon the dovetailed hive than upon any other kind. thing to raise the temperature in some way. Good banking might accomplish it. Coarse manure would do. .\ big lot of snow is good while it lasts. The ventilation of the hives would be all right in a dry cellar; but as it is there would be advantage in giving more ven- tilation at the top or bottom, or both. The cellar might have more ventilation, too; but in that case there might possibly be danger of lowering temperature too much. 2. The drops of water on the cover is the moisture from the bees, and settles there be- cause of coldnes
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