Gleanings in bee culture . deal when the hive is notoften to be opened. The Dadant or the Jumbo with extra-deepLangstroth frames would give you the samecapacity with fewer frames to handle, andthe deeper frames would have some advan-tages for brood-rearing, although that wouldcount for more further north. On the otherhand, the 12-frame Langstroth has the advan-tage that it was thought out by yourself. Really its a hard thing to say which wouldbe best—the hive you have proposed, or theDadant or the Jumbo. Either of them oughtto suit you well; but I dont believe the thingfor you is the divisible
Gleanings in bee culture . deal when the hive is notoften to be opened. The Dadant or the Jumbo with extra-deepLangstroth frames would give you the samecapacity with fewer frames to handle, andthe deeper frames would have some advan-tages for brood-rearing, although that wouldcount for more further north. On the otherhand, the 12-frame Langstroth has the advan-tage that it was thought out by yourself. Really its a hard thing to say which wouldbe best—the hive you have proposed, or theDadant or the Jumbo. Either of them oughtto suit you well; but I dont believe the thingfor you is the divisible brood-chamber. Marengo, 111. C. C. Miller. [There will be a series of articles soonfrom Mr. J. E. Hand that will set forth theadvantages of the divisible-brood-chamberhive. We advise Mr. Fisher to wait till hehas read this series of articles before hebuilds a special odd-sized hive—not becausethey will discourage the divisible-brood-chamber feature, but because they may en-able him to build more intelligently.—Ed.]. STARTERS MADE OF STRIPS OF OLD COMB. Thinking to interest some of the smallbee-keepers like myself I wish to describe acomb-guide for brood-frames that pleases mebetter than any thing else for the purposeI have ever used. It is simply strips of oldbrood-combs, and the way I use them is likethis: I take old tough brood-combs and cutthem in strips one inch or even less inwidth, being careful to cut them square—that is, not on a bevel. I use a very thinknife and straight-edge. The older andtougher the comb the better it pleases me;and to fasten them in the frames I proceedas follows: Stand your frame bottom up on a bench orboard, then with a spoon pour some meltedwax with a liftle resin added, having itquite hot, along the top-bar the whole lengthwhere the comb is to be attached. This be- 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 567 ing done, place the strip of comb in position,pressing it into the melted wax, care beingtaken tnat the comb shall come in the mid-dle of t
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