The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . if I may beexcused for saying so much. If you will ex-amine bees at the approach of frosty weath-er, you will see, from the way in which they NUCLEUS. 205 NUCLEUS. draw up and condense, how their combsneed to be proportioned. To have themstand the rigors of severe winter weather,they should fill their hive as n
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . if I may beexcused for saying so much. If you will ex-amine bees at the approach of frosty weath-er, you will see, from the way in which they NUCLEUS. 205 NUCLEUS. draw up and condense, how their combsneed to be proportioned. To have themstand the rigors of severe winter weather,they should fill their hive as nearly as possi-ble, and there should be no cold unfilledspaces, either at the ends or underneath thecluster. If their hive is so full that bees arestanding in the doorway, even during severecold weather, we need have little fear oftheir suffering. Now, with a shallow hivethey will come clear down to the bottom-board, and keep that warm as well as theceiling overhead. With a frame as deep asthe Gallup, I have not succeeded so well inmaking them do it. Nor can I succeed sowell with any frame, whose depth is as greatas the width. The warm combs are at thesides of the bees, and the open ends betweenthe combs are at the ends of the diagram below will help to make LANGSTROTH. It is very plainly evident, that the sides ofthe clusters, A,B, and C. D, are much betterprotected than the sidesG,H, and E,F; andalso that the long frames protect the centerof the brood-nest much better than the shortones. Taking this fact into consideration,in connection with what has been said ofthe importance of a shallow frame, and weshall have just about the dimensions of hiveand frame given us by Mr. Langstroth; and,if I am correct, all tliese things were takeninto consideration when he settled down onhis frame and hive, after years of careful ex-periment in regard to different sizes. Well, if the L. frame is the best economyfor the average progeny of a queen, we musthave a smaller f
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