. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. HivK-BoDv OR Bkood-Ghambek. making 4 divisions in each side of the hive, or 8 in all. This allows for 8 queens all together. The partition between the 2 rows of frames has a 2-inch space near the bot- tom extending the full length of the hive, and left open except for wire- cloth which keeps the bees apart, but allows a common scent throughout the hive. All division-boards are also about half wire-cloth. There are 4 entrances on each side, one for each queen and her progeny, and 4 extra entrances at the ends, two at each end, for use until queens are
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. HivK-BoDv OR Bkood-Ghambek. making 4 divisions in each side of the hive, or 8 in all. This allows for 8 queens all together. The partition between the 2 rows of frames has a 2-inch space near the bot- tom extending the full length of the hive, and left open except for wire- cloth which keeps the bees apart, but allows a common scent throughout the hive. All division-boards are also about half wire-cloth. There are 4 entrances on each side, one for each queen and her progeny, and 4 extra entrances at the ends, two at each end, for use until queens are mated. When the hive is filled with nuclei, the entrances are arranged as follows: Two center entrances on each side left open, with a board fastened up be- tween to help the queen to get back into the right place on her return from mating. The outside 2 entrances on both sides are closed, and those in the ends of the hive opened in their stead. This arrangement leaves very little danger of queens getting into the wrong place, and I have never had any trouble from that source. As soon as all queens are mated «// entrances are opened on the sides of the hive and the end ones closed. The first year I started 1 and 2 frame nuclei in it, and although they were frames, which I placed on top, and then stood back and watched results. It was a very light fall flow that year, and from 27 colonies, aside from this one, I secured only about b50 pounds of extracted honey. The mammoth colony alone stored 120 pounds of fall honey, or within 30 pounds of as much as all the rest combined. Late fall, however, showed the weak point in the hive. There is a large cover that goes over all, and then each partition has its individual cover. These little covers would warp, or perhaps failed to fit perfectly in the first place, and when fall came those queens got to visiting. The consequence was that that winter found them with but 2 queens in the hive—one in each oppo- site corner, I forgot to ment
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