. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. HIVES. 240 HIVES. jority of bee-keepeis, after having tried the s(iuare and the oblong frame, finally decided ill favor of tlie Langstroth for the following reasons : THE LANGSTltOTII FKAMB AND IHVE, AND WHY THEY nECAME THE STANDARDS. 1. A shallow frame permits the use of a low flat hive that can easily be tiered up one, two, three, and four stories high. Tins is a great advantage when one is running for ex- tracted honey, as all he
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. HIVES. 240 HIVES. jority of bee-keepeis, after having tried the s(iuare and the oblong frame, finally decided ill favor of tlie Langstroth for the following reasons : THE LANGSTltOTII FKAMB AND IHVE, AND WHY THEY nECAME THE STANDARDS. 1. A shallow frame permits the use of a low flat hive that can easily be tiered up one, two, three, and four stories high. Tins is a great advantage when one is running for ex- tracted honey, as all he has to do when the bees require more room is to add upper sto- ries as fast as the l) require them, and then at the end of the season extract at his leisure. Square or deep hives can not be tiered up very high without becoming top- heavy and out of convenient reach of the operator. 2. The long shallow frame is more easily uncapped because the blade of the un- capping-knife can reach clear across it. 3. Tlie shape of the Langstroth frame favors an extractor of good proportion. 4. A deep frame is not as easily lifted out of a hive; is more liable to kill bees in the process of removing and inserting frames. 5. The shal- low frame is better adapted for box lioney. It is well known that bees, after forming a brood-circle, are inclined to put sealed hon- ey just over the brood. In a frame as shal- low as the Langstroth, there will be less hon- ey in the brood-nest and more in the boxes ; for bees, in order to complete their brood- circle in the Langstroth, will, with a prolific queen, push the brood-line almost up to the top - bar, and, consequently, when honey comes in, will put it into the supers or boxes just where it is wanted. B. When bees form their winter cluster they are pretty apt to place it very near the top of the hive or cover. This is on account of the greater warmth at that point, for heated air has a tendency to rise. It sometimes happens, in case of the square f
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