1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



143 



The Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



Bv Prof. A. J. Cook. 



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Questiot;)'Box^ 



In the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety. — Prov. 11-14. 



Single or Double Brood-Cham- 

 bers for 12 Frames. 



Query 6.— I am inclined to think I want 12 

 frames or more in the brood -chamber. Is it 

 best to have these in a single hive large 

 enough to contain all, or to use two eight- 

 frame hives, filling up the vacancy with dum- 

 mies?— Ind, 



Mrs. L. Harrison — I prefer 8-frame 

 hives. 



W. G. Larrabee — I would use them all 

 in one story. 



Dr. 0. C. Miller— I don't know. I'm 

 trying to find out. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — I prefer the two- 

 story 8-frame hive. 



J. M. Hambaugh — I would use the 12 

 frames in one body. 



J. A. Green — I should prefer to have 

 them all in one hive. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — I would have 

 them in a single story. 



B. Taylor — I would make the frames 

 deeper, and use 10 in a hive. 



W. R. Graham — I would want all my 

 brood-frames in a single hive. 



G. M. Doolittle— If I used 12 frames 

 I should put them in a single hive. 



P. H. Elwood — If I used no more than 

 12 frames I should put them into one 

 story. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater— If I had to use 12 

 frames, I should certainly have them all 

 in one hive. 



Jas. A. Stone — Whatever number of 

 frames I would have, I think best to 

 have them all in one hive. 



Chas. Dadant & Son — We much prefer 

 a single story for brood, with dummies 

 if needed to reduce the space. 



E. France — Use two 8-frame hives one 

 over the other. We use three 8-frame 

 hives, that is, three tiers high. 



R. L. Taylor — Better have a single 

 hive large enough to hold 12 frames, 

 and fill that up partly with dummies. 



C. H. Dibbern — I think I should prefer 

 the single hive for comb honey, and the 

 two hives for extracted honey, but 1 

 would omit the dummies. 



H. D. Cutting — It depends upon the 

 size of frame. Why don't you say what 

 you are using ? I don't believe you want 

 12 Langstroth frames in a brood-cham- 

 ber in Indiana, any more than we do in 

 Michigan. 



Emerson T. Abbott — I do not want 

 any "dummies" in a brood-chamber. 

 There are too many "dummies" lying 

 around in the country now. If I wanted 

 more than eight frames, and used a two- 

 story hive, I should prefer 16. 



Eugene Secor — If you winter bees on 

 the summer stands, perhaps one hive 

 would be preferable. If in a cellar, such 

 a hive would be too large to handle. I 

 would not use 16 frames in either ease, 

 but your conditions may be different. 



Allen Pringle — You have struck a 

 vexed question. Some of the "lights" 

 have been at that a long time, with no 

 sign of stopping. Let them go on with 



it to the crack of doom, and not only will 

 everybody have his own opinion still, but 

 nobody will be much the wiser. If you 

 must have " 12 frames or more " in the 

 brood-chamber, I would advise the 

 doulde S duly dummies. 



G. W. Demaree — I would want them 

 in a single hive-body, like the Dadants 

 make their hives. But I doubt very 

 much if you don't learn that 9 or 10 

 Langstroth frames iu the brood apart- 

 ment is preferable, one year after 

 another. 



Rev. M. Mahin — I cannot imagine why 

 you want 12 'or more frames in the 

 brood-chamber, unless you want some- 

 thing on the Heddon plan. If I wanted 

 12 or more I would have about 20; and 

 I would have them about 12 inches long 

 and 6 inches deep, and have 10 below 

 aud 10 above. 



J. E. Pond— This is a question that 

 can only be determined by yourself and 

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 affect this question to such an extent 

 that experiments are the only guide to 

 determine the matter. I prefer a 10- 

 frame Langstroth hive, tiered up to suit 

 the condition of matters during the 

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