. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. November, 19l2. American Hee Journal knowledge that you may be able to eive me on the matter. F. J. Severin. Imoerial. Calif. Since we are using the shallow frames for production as we'll as for comb honey, and we have found them very satisfactory in our hands, there is no reason why others should not be as successful with them as we have been. We claim that we have some advantages over deeper frames, chief among them is the matter of being able to provide 'just as much room as is needed, which IS i|uite an item with weak colonies or
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. November, 19l2. American Hee Journal knowledge that you may be able to eive me on the matter. F. J. Severin. Imoerial. Calif. Since we are using the shallow frames for production as we'll as for comb honey, and we have found them very satisfactory in our hands, there is no reason why others should not be as successful with them as we have been. We claim that we have some advantages over deeper frames, chief among them is the matter of being able to provide 'just as much room as is needed, which IS i|uite an item with weak colonies or during a poor season. Another important matter is, that we can use lighter weight foundation in these shallow frames, and when the supers are full they can be removed with much more rapidity, as the bees are easily cleared out of them with a little smoking and jarring. Handling the lO-frame shallow supers as a whole in all the various manipulations instead of frames only, is quite a saving of time and labor. This cannot be done so successfully with deep frames; tirst, because the deep 10-frame hive full would be too much of a load, at least to handle for any length of time; and, second, the bees could not be gotten out of them without considerable brushing of individual frames and irri- tation of the bees. One slice with the uncapping knite across the face of the shallow comb would uncap an entire side without digging over the surface of the deeper combs that are never so regular as a general rule. And while some persons argue that there are so many more frames to handle, the ad- vantages that are gained by handling them far overbalance this. The Da- dants are extensive users of the shal- low extracting frames, and they are large extracted-honey producers. In our experience, and after trying all kinds of frames and various meth- ods of spacing, as well as unspaced frames, we have found the shallow Hoffman .5^8 inches deep to suit us better than any other. We have found the clos
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