Gleanings in bee culture . n con-struction, mainly the adoption of a closed-endhanging frame, made a shallow hive thatsuited me much better, and I have severalhundred of these in use now. Probably thereare others who gave up the Heddon hive be-cause they recognized its faults and did nothave the opportunity I had to make a hivethat avoided them. The point that only two per cent of thefoundation sold by the Dadant factory is forshallow hives is not as important as it wouldappear, for it happens that a large propor-tion of those who use shallow hives—all, infact, with whose methods I am acquaint
Gleanings in bee culture . n con-struction, mainly the adoption of a closed-endhanging frame, made a shallow hive thatsuited me much better, and I have severalhundred of these in use now. Probably thereare others who gave up the Heddon hive be-cause they recognized its faults and did nothave the opportunity I had to make a hivethat avoided them. The point that only two per cent of thefoundation sold by the Dadant factory is forshallow hives is not as important as it wouldappear, for it happens that a large propor-tion of those who use shallow hives—all, infact, with whose methods I am acquainted—are comb-honey producers, following themodern plan of hiving all swarms in con-tracted brood-chambers with only narrowstarters of foundation in the frames. Natu-rally this consumes very little brood founda-tion. These narrow strips, too, can be cutjust as easily from the standard width ofsheet as from a special size. That is exactlywhat I shall do in preparing my hives thisseason. In fact, all the full sheets I want. On page 485 C. P. Dadant, while favoringdee}) brood-chambers, admits that shallowhives are more desirable for migratory bee-keeping. The one who swings this pen failsto see the advantage to be derived from hav-ing to fasten together four pieces where thereare only three with a deep chamber, or evenfastening together six or eight where former-ly there were only four or six. SIMPLE FRAMES, ETC. In the same article he quotes Editor Hutch-inson as being in favor of simplicity in hive-construction—plain simple frames withoutprojections of staples, stating that these fix-ings that are put upon frames and hives area needless expense and bring no recompense. Can it be that Mr. Hutchinson has nevertried staple-spaced frames—that is, framesseparated from each other by staples? If hehas, I can not see why he should pronouncesuch spacing a needless expense. I havetried both ways, and I would no more goback to unspaced frames than an intelligentwoman would leave a fi
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