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opinion of the author that this style of hive will be adopted in 

 the North long before the South accepts it, because of the winter 

 stores problem. The need of greater brood room later in the 

 spring is mentioned by J. J. Wilder of Waycross, Georgia, in the 

 "Dixie Beekeeper," page twenty-two, April, 1919. He advo- 

 cates the use of a nine-frame hive and the addition of a shallow 

 extracting super later in spring. Mr. Wilder's bees in the south 

 of Georgia are- run both for comb and extracted honey. 



I The Box Hive. 



While census figures show that there are more colonies of bees 

 in the South than in the North and West, this number is appre- 

 ciably increased by the number of box hives which are found 



Fig. 5. A modern hive. 



