SlKI'TKMBKR, 1919 



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Fig. 8. — Some of the twelve-frame colonies that do not know enough to swarm, as referred to in the legend 



under Fig. 11. They keep ris;ht on piling in the honey. Notice the ventilated covers, which the owniers 



say they will adopt exclusively in place of that shown at the e.Ktreme right. 



show. Here is a suggestion for some bee- 

 keepers ' wives and daughters. 



Ten- Versus Twelve-frame Hives. 

 After interviewing Miss Crowder we hunt- 

 ed up her father, J. F. Crowder, of Zimmer- 



Fig. 9. — The J. F. Crowder scheme of ventilation. 



See Figs. 7 and 10. The floor-board draws out, 



leaving the bottom open that is covered by wire cloth 



in the bottom of the hive-body. 



man & Crowder, of Pasadena, and the apiary 

 in the background where this honey was 

 produced. Yes, indeed, there was a very 

 pretty apiary made of three- and four-story 

 colonies about evenly divided between ten- 

 frame and twelve-frame colonies. Dare I 

 tell it? and would you believe it"? the twelve- 

 framers hardly swarm at all, while the ten- 

 framers swarm — ^well, just as all ten-fram- 

 ers do, right in the same yard with the 

 same honey flow and the same management. 

 Both Zimmerman and Crowder testified to 

 the comparative freedom of the big hives 



from swarming. It is the same old, old 

 story that the Dadants, Holtermann, and 

 others have told us for years. The main ob- 

 jection seems to be that they are odd-sized 

 and too big to lift. 



Mr. Crowder testified further that he had 

 always noticed that a hive of any size 

 would be full of brood and honey in a 



Fig. 10. — The whole scheme of ventilation, in effect, 

 except that the floor-board is removed entirely when 

 the entrance is closed up. The removal of the floor- 

 board expo.ses the bottom screen, whieh is always 

 under the brood-nest. After the hives are moved, 

 the floors are shoved back into place, closing up the 

 bottom, after which the ventilating-frame is removed 

 from between the two stories. 



good season. He argued if a twelve-frame 

 hive under the same conditions, with the 

 same honey flow, same management, and 

 with the same queen, gave 50 per cent more 



