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The Size Of Beehives

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Day
16
Month
December
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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Opinions dift'er, though it is very generally agreed that before clover harvest it is desirable to have plenty of room for the queen tn lay all she can so there inay be a strong forcé for the main harvest, and there are queens that need all of tlie ten frames. But when the time of main storing begins there are many of our best beekeepers who want the brood nest contracted to a good deal smaller space. They say that ten frames are more tUan needed for a brood nest, and so a iarge space merely gives room for the bees to store there the nice, white honey that ought to go into the surplus apartment. Dr. Miller, to whom the foregoing theory seems reasonable, says in The National Stockman: "1 practiced contractiou to a radical extent, reducing the brood chamber from ten Laugstroth frames down to eight, six, five and less. 1 am obliged to say that I could not teil for certain whether 1 gained anything by sueh contraction. I think I got just as large crops with ten frames in the brood chamber, but then there are so many things to be considered, the different seasons among others, that it is hard to be certain. Try it yourself. By jucans of a división board yon can contract down to any nnmber of frames yon choose, and use the same supers above. At ijresent 1 use eight frames all the year around, but I do not know whether it is best."

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