. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 190 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL June our colonies in the order of their rat- ing, beginning with the best: 1 No. 25 154 10 No. 2 100 2 No. 8 144 II No. 24 93 3 No. 5 135 12 No. 30 74 4 No. 6 130 13 No. 13 72 5 No. 20 130 14 No. 28 66 6 No. 17 124 I5-No. 1 65 7 No. 11 122 16 No. 22 44 8 No. 21 119 17 No. 27 43 9 No. 12 lis This is by no means given as a per- fect scheme. It may be that ten pounds is not the right number 'to count as the difference made by the taking or giving of a frame of brood. Por that matter it is not a fixed quan- tity. It is no doubt mo
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 190 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL June our colonies in the order of their rat- ing, beginning with the best: 1 No. 25 154 10 No. 2 100 2 No. 8 144 II No. 24 93 3 No. 5 135 12 No. 30 74 4 No. 6 130 13 No. 13 72 5 No. 20 130 14 No. 28 66 6 No. 17 124 I5-No. 1 65 7 No. 11 122 16 No. 22 44 8 No. 21 119 17 No. 27 43 9 No. 12 lis This is by no means given as a per- fect scheme. It may be that ten pounds is not the right number 'to count as the difference made by the taking or giving of a frame of brood. Por that matter it is not a fixed quan- tity. It is no doubt more in a bumper year than in a year of failure. It need not be considered at all by one who does not practice equalization of colo- nies. The amount charged up for start- ing queen-cells is arbitrary, and some would consider it more serious, while others might consider it of little im- portance. Each one is at liberty to make improvements on the plan or to get up a better one. The likelihood, however, is that no great mistake will be made in breeding from No. 25, which stands at the head of the list, and if anything shiould happen to the queen of No. 25, then No. 8 should be taken to breed from, and so on down the list. Incidentally it might be mentioned that the queen of No. 27 would be a proper candidate for de- capitation, as well as others near the bottom of the list. The Evolution of Beekeeping Practice BY G. S. DEMUTH (Continued from May) In December, 1885, at the Detroit convention, Mr. Heddon announced the new Heddon hive and his book, "Success in Bee ; The new Heddon hive was designed especially to meet the requirements of the con- traction system. The length and width remained the same as the 8- frame Langstroth hive, but the depth of the frames was reduced to 5j^ in. in order to make eight of these shal- low combs equivalent in capacity to five Langstroth frames. It was ad- vised that two of these shallow brood-chambers be used during the six weeks p
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