. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PutiUsUt Weekly at US Jijc/iig-jn Street. SIAH) a Yeiii—SoiupJc C'i>y ^'Vee. 37th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., MAY 27, 1897. No. A Defense of the "Detestable" Bee-Space. BY W. Z. HUTCHIKSON. In the American Bee Journal /or April 29, I find an arti- cle in which the writer severely and unjustly condemns the bee-space that has so nearly universally come into use. The great objection brought agalust the!-e spaces by this writer, who signs himself " Commou-Sense Bee-Keeping," is that they allow the escape of heat. If the heat rises and
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PutiUsUt Weekly at US Jijc/iig-jn Street. SIAH) a Yeiii—SoiupJc C'i>y ^'Vee. 37th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., MAY 27, 1897. No. A Defense of the "Detestable" Bee-Space. BY W. Z. HUTCHIKSON. In the American Bee Journal /or April 29, I find an arti- cle in which the writer severely and unjustly condemns the bee-space that has so nearly universally come into use. The great objection brought agalust the!-e spaces by this writer, who signs himself " Commou-Sense Bee-Keeping," is that they allow the escape of heat. If the heat rises and escapes from between two combs, pray where does it escape to .?? Into the adjoining spaces, of course—where else can it go? If the heat from one space escapes into the adjoining spaces, and that from the adjoining spaces escapes into the first-mentioned space, where does the loss come in ? The illustration about the heat escaping from a hen's nest, if there were a lot of boles iu its bottom, is not a parallel case, as in that case the heat escapes iuto the open air and is lost, while In the bee- hive the heat is slill In the liive. Iknow that our "common-sense" friend says that the heat escapes over iuto the farther corners of the hive away from the bees, and that it there "condenses and ; I am at a loss to know what he means by its "; I know that steam can be condenst into water, or that we can condense the rays of the sun by passing them through a lens, etc., but I fail to understand how heat can be "con- denst" if it escapes into the corner of a bee-hive. When the weather is cold, or even cool, a colony of bees contracts, the outer part being especially compact, thus form- ing a sort of covering, or natural hive, as Cheshire calls it, and Inside this crust of bees the temperature may be, and often is, raised to over 90, while the outside is below the freezing point. If we could make a hive that was exactly the si
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