Gleanings in bee culture . e 6700 worker-cells; by-count it is 6800. Those are the figures pro-vided the combs are built on foundationand fill the frames. But how many combsapproach that condition? Let us go to thedifferent yards and see. 0. M. combs fill the frames solidfrom top-bar to bottom-bar, and from endto end, and all worker comb—that is, allbut the lower half of one comb in each liive,and that is drone comb, and all the dronebrood is there. Wise Old Man Philetus!His combs are beautifully filled with brood,even regular sheets of it, and only a narrowline of honey and pollen next th
Gleanings in bee culture . e 6700 worker-cells; by-count it is 6800. Those are the figures pro-vided the combs are built on foundationand fill the frames. But how many combsapproach that condition? Let us go to thedifferent yards and see. 0. M. combs fill the frames solidfrom top-bar to bottom-bar, and from endto end, and all worker comb—that is, allbut the lower half of one comb in each liive,and that is drone comb, and all the dronebrood is there. Wise Old Man Philetus!His combs are beautifully filled with brood,even regular sheets of it, and only a narrowline of honey and pollen next the toj^-bar. Deducting the half-comb of drone andthe total area used for pollen and honey inthe eight combs, we find that there are about45,000 cells of worker brood. (Not nearlyenough for a good queen and best results,as 0. M. P. has learned, and he is changingto larger hives.) Brock has good combs built on founda-tion in wired frames but the combs do nottouch the bottom-bar, and are rounded off GLKANTNGS IN REK CULTURr,. Mr. Luke, of Jefferson Co., Ind., and a part of liis bees. on the lower edges or have a fringe ofdrone-cells and more of the same in thelower corners. By measure we find that anarea equal to a frame and a half is thuswasted. In other words, he gives to dronecomb about double the surface given by ().M. P., and loses the area of half a comb byunoccupied space. The amount of honeyand pollen is much the same as in 0. , except that the two outer combs areall or nearly all honey and pollen. By measure and estimate we find Brocksten combs when in use have available forworker brood the equivalent of but sevenperfect combs of the 0. M. P. capacity, or47,600 cells. Brock doesnt like the showing, but hasto admit its truth. To make him feel bet-ter we will take him with us to Oppenheim-ers. twelve-frames look immense be-side 0. M. eights, yet there does notseem to be much more hustle, except ofdrones. We open up some hives, and hereis what we find. (Really
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