. Dadant system of beekeeping. Bees. 44 DADANT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING The hive encasing the bottom board has the great fault, the minds of many apiarists, to prevent the tiering up of hive bodies, since the projections would keep the upper hive from joining on the lower one and the bees would build comb between them. This is true. But we have found less need of tiering up brood chambers than the average apiarist would imagine. However, we are free to accept this as one of the leading points in the making of a simplified Dadant brood chamber. We have used hundreds ourselves with plain Fi


. Dadant system of beekeeping. Bees. 44 DADANT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING The hive encasing the bottom board has the great fault, the minds of many apiarists, to prevent the tiering up of hive bodies, since the projections would keep the upper hive from joining on the lower one and the bees would build comb between them. This is true. But we have found less need of tiering up brood chambers than the average apiarist would imagine. However, we are free to accept this as one of the leading points in the making of a simplified Dadant brood chamber. We have used hundreds ourselves with plain Fig. 25. Frames of the Modified Da- dant hive are the same length astheLangstroth frames, but 2yz inches deeper. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. , American Bee Journal


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