8 COMB HONEY. 
chambers well filled with brood at the beginning of the honey flow, 
the less skillful beekeeper under similar conditions may be doing well 
to approximate this condition with a much smaller brood chamber. 
For comb-honey production the brood chamber should be of such 
a size that by proper management it may be well filled with brood 
at the beginning of the honey flow, so that the brood and surplus 
apartments may be definitely 
separated. A brood chamber 
may be considered too large 
if by proper management it 
is not on an average fairly 
well filled with brood at the’ 
beginning of the honey flow, 
and too small if it provides an 
average of less room than the 
colony is able to occupy with 
brood previous to the honey 
flow. Unless the beekeeper 
practices feeding, a brood 
chamber that does not con- 
tain sufficient room for both 
winter stores and brood rear- 
ing during late summer and 
autumn may also be consid- 
ered too small. It may be 
well to note that by this 
standard if the brood cham- 
ber seems to be too large the 
fault may lie in the manage- 
ment during the previous au- 
tumn, winter, or spring. Of 
course the brood chamber 
that is barely large enough 
for one colony will be too 
large for another in the same 
Fig. 1.—A 10-frame hive with comb-honey super and per- ae : 
forated zinc queen excluder. (From Phillips.) aplary or the character of the 
season may be such that ail 
brood chambers may be too large for best results one season and too 
small the next, so an average must be sought. While by manipula- 
tion good results may be secured by the use of any of the sizes in 
common use, any great departure in either direction from the size 
best suited to conditions of a given locality necessitates an excessive 
increase in labor to give best results. There is at the present time 
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