. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 655 We will also give more of the details when we cut the trees. The bees and all are given to us by the owners. We will stop on the road to- morrow and gather up some bees at a house where the man said he would give us the whole business, to see if we could handle them. We think this an easy way to pay for them, but he thinks not, as the bees have driven everything and everybody off, that fooled with them, for years. Anyhow, we are not much afraid to tackle them. Jennie Number of Langstrotli Frames for a Colony at Any
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 655 We will also give more of the details when we cut the trees. The bees and all are given to us by the owners. We will stop on the road to- morrow and gather up some bees at a house where the man said he would give us the whole business, to see if we could handle them. We think this an easy way to pay for them, but he thinks not, as the bees have driven everything and everybody off, that fooled with them, for years. Anyhow, we are not much afraid to tackle them. Jennie Number of Langstrotli Frames for a Colony at Any Time. Query 898.—1. What is the greatest num- ber of Lang-stroth brood-frames you permit a colony to have at any time ? 2. When do you allow the most, if you vary the number ? 3. Also, please state whether for comb or for extracted honey.—Colorado. 1. Ten. 2. All the time. 2. Both.— S. I. Freeborn. Eight frames at all times, and for all purposes.—Mrs. J. N. Heater. 1. Usually eight. 2. Before the honey-flow. 3. Comb.—Eugene Secor. 1. All it needs. I have given 32. 2. When most needed. 3. Extracted.—A. B. Mason. 1. Eight frames. 2. I do not vary the number. 3. For both.—Mrs. L. Harrison. 1. Ten. 2. I do not vary the number except with small colonies. 3. For comb honey.—J. H. Larrabee. 1. The equivalent of ten Langstroth frames. 2. During May and June. 3. Comb honey.—R. L. Taylor. 1. Eight frames. 2. Eight all the time. 3. For comb; for extracted, from 8 to 24.—H. D. Cutting. 1. Ten. 2. I do not contract, except possibly in the fall when I prepare for winter quarters.—J. P. H. Brown. 1. Thirty, when run for extracting. 2. During the honey harvest, when they become very populous.— J. M. Ham- BAUGH. For comb honey, eight all the time. But I'm not at all sure that is best. Nine or ten might be better.—C. C. Miller. 1. Eight. I always have the hive full except in some cases after hiving new swarms, and wishing to work for comb honey.—A. J. Cook. 1. Ten. 2.
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