. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 174 THE BRITISH BEE JOTJRKAL. April 8, 1920. many districts, a new set of conditions has arisen, calling for new methods of, management. Hybrids of Italo-Dutch, Italo-Car- niolan, or any permutation of these, together with the three pure races, if there be such a thing as a pure Dutch race, require considerably more space for breeding and winter stores. The provision of this space in the form of the 16-in. x 10-in. frame, with winter passageway through a thick top bar, would, I am convinced, go far to obviate the heavy losses now experienc
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 174 THE BRITISH BEE JOTJRKAL. April 8, 1920. many districts, a new set of conditions has arisen, calling for new methods of, management. Hybrids of Italo-Dutch, Italo-Car- niolan, or any permutation of these, together with the three pure races, if there be such a thing as a pure Dutch race, require considerably more space for breeding and winter stores. The provision of this space in the form of the 16-in. x 10-in. frame, with winter passageway through a thick top bar, would, I am convinced, go far to obviate the heavy losses now experienced through decamping swarms and winter starvation. —A. F. Harwood. Warm or Cold Way? Somehow, when correspondents write about the combs being parallel or at right angles to the entrance I am never certain that I have rightly understood. The Germans hit off the difference bv calling the respective arrangement " Warmbau" and " ; The cold way of the combs, of course, is the arrangement that provides a draught from the entrance straight through the central street, whereas in the warm con- struction the frames stand across thi» draught. I have been running my hives on th? " warm-way " principle,^ because it is easier to work new frames in from th(» back, because a back frame can be taken out in autumn full of honey, whereas in the " cold-way," honey and pollen get- mixed up in all the combs, and probably for other reasons I can't think of just now. It is said that when bees build in the hollow branch of a tree they build " cold- way," and when they build in a hollow trunk they build "; From this it seems to follow that " cold-way " is the proper construction with the English frame, which is longer than it is deep. The bees store the honey at the back of the combs, and begin the winter sitting at the front, where the last brood was raised. As they eat they work easily back, whereas if the frame
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