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gain of an 8 over a 10 frame hive, in 

 comb-honey, would probably amount to 

 33 per cent. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



You would gain nothing if the bees 

 were occupying the full brood-chamber. 

 Contraction is not advisable, except 

 when the hive is not fully occupied by 

 the queen at the opening of the crop. 

 We do not practice it in any case. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



If your colonies are strong and full of 

 bees, T do not think you would gain any- 

 thing ; but if they were only fairly 

 strong and loth to work in the sections, 

 contraction would undoubtedly cause 

 them to go up-stairs, and all you would 

 get that way would be gain. — S. I. Free- 

 born. 



I do not think you would gain any- 

 thing by the contraction, if the colonies 

 are as you say, strong in bees, and in 

 good condition, for I have found that 

 the more room there is right over or 

 around the brood-nest in this locality, 

 the more comb-honey we get 5 as it 

 seems to be the nature of the bees to 

 store their honey right over and around 

 the brood. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



This question soars too highly into the 

 realms of fancy, for me to even attempt 

 to answer. Perhaps there would be no 

 surplus at all, in either case ; without 

 regarding the matter of pounds, I do 

 not think any gain at all would be made 

 by reducing the brood-chamber, pro- 

 viding, of course, that the colony was 

 large enough for the whole 10 frames. 

 — J. E. Pond. 



You would not gain any, but on the 

 contrary would lose. However, it is now 

 admitted, I think, by the great majority 

 of comb-honey producers, that in using 

 the 10-frame Langstroth hive, all 

 swarms should be hived on six brood- 

 frames. Contraction to a smaller space 

 will often result in large quantities of 

 pollen being placed in the sections. — G. 

 L. Tinker. 



You might possibly gain as much as 

 the two frames you propose to remove 

 would hold, and at the end of the season 

 have to feed back twice that much. That 

 is about the " size of it." I will take my 

 10-frarae modernized-Langstroth hive, 

 and engage to boat anybody with an 8- 

 frame hive, (Charging him with weight 

 for weight in winter stores. A section- 

 case for an 8-frame Langstroth holds 7 

 rows of 4 sections each (28) ; my 10- 

 frarae Langstroth hive takes a case that 

 holds 32 sections. It may look a little 

 out of the general order of things, but 



a strong colony will fill the large case as 

 quickly as the small one, giving a gain 

 of 4 sections to the case. — G. W. Dem- 



AREE. 



The weight of two Langstroth frames 

 would be about 15 pounds",' but the bees 

 would consume more honey in rearing 

 two frames of brood than they could 

 store in the two frames. The exact 

 amount could not be given without 

 knowing how long your honey-flow 

 would last. In fact, the length, time 

 and source of your honey-flow would 

 largely determine whether such manage- 

 ment would result in profit or loss to 

 you. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



So much depends upon the locality, 

 methods employed, length of the honey 

 season, and the quantity of the honey- 

 flow, that any answer would be but a 

 " guess." There would probably be a 

 gain, but the quantity would be quite 

 uncertain. — The Editor. 



CJonYention IVotices. 



COLORADO.— The Spring meeting of the 

 Coloi'ado State Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held in Golden, Colo., on April 21, 1893. 

 E. B. Porter, Pres. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton, Colo. 



ILLINOIS.— The Spring meeting of the 

 Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at O. Taylor's, at Harlem. 111., on 

 May 17, 1892. All are cordially invited. 



Cherry Valley, 111. D. A. Fuller, Sec. 



PENNSYLVANIA.- The tenth semi-annual 

 meeting of the Susquehanna Co. Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held at Bullard's Hotel in 

 Brooklyn, Pa., on Thursday, May 5, 1892, at 

 10 a.m. All are cordially invited. 



Harford. Pa. H. M. Seeley, Sec. 



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