July 1, 1911 



side a room, and the cover with the adher- 

 ing frames pulled out and placed on the 

 table upside down. A little smoke is given 

 at one end of the frames, and watch is kept 

 of the other. When the (jueen runs out 

 upon the table she is covered with an in- 

 troducing- cage until she runs up, when the 

 entrance is closed with a piece of dry can- 

 died honey the size of an egg. The bees in 

 the box are now jarred off, and the cage 

 with the queen is placed quickly inside with 

 them. The bottle is filled again, and the 

 whole returned again to the dark room. 



Thus they are left for -18 hours. The the- 

 ory is that "bees in this condition, without 

 comb, and well filled, will accept a queen 

 more quickly than if divided by combs. 

 Toward evening of the fourth day the swarm 

 is hived into permanent quarters with eight 

 frames filled with foundation. 



In case honey is not coming in fast, feed- 

 ing of the bees is continued until th« combs 

 have been completed and are sufficiently 

 filled with stores. 



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Fig. 1 



-The shallow brood-Iraine as usei 

 House. 



THE SECTIONAL HIVE WELL ADAPTED TO THE 

 PRODUCTION OF FANCY COMB HONEY. 



Some of the Advantages of the Shallow - frame 

 Brood-chambers. 



BY S. D. HOUSE. 



The four most importatit essentials for the 

 production of comb honey are — a location 

 with a good flow of nectar; a practical bee- 

 keei)er; a strain of bees bred for the produc- 

 tion of comb honey; and the hives and fix- 

 tures. The predominating factor is the bee- 

 keeper, as he will combine all the other fac- 

 tors to his own advantage, and his success 

 will be measured byjhis own ability and en- 



Fig. 2. 



Two colonies during alfalfa flow in August 

 single section of the brood-chamber 



ergy. ^lany luactical men are slow to adopt 

 new principles and devices, for they do not 

 give enough thought to the fundamental 

 l^rinciples involved to secure the full bene- 

 fit to be derived therefrom. There are many 

 meritorious inventions of hives and fixtures, 

 and methods of manipulation, that are al- 

 lowed to go almost unnoticed by bee-keep- 

 ers, or tried in such a meager way that no 

 real test is made. 



Over twenty years ago I became convinced 

 that a shallow brood-frame was a necessity 

 to the producer of fancy comb honey; and I 

 made a test, using about twenty hives con- 

 taining shallow frames — one style built by 

 Mr. F. A. Salisbury. This hive was con- 

 structed for outdoor wintering. It had 

 closed-end frames, double-walled sides with 

 a dead-air space between, and a bottom- 

 board of double thickness with an entrance 

 cut in between, 

 allowing the bees 

 to enter under the 

 frames. The 

 frames were about 

 4X19, outside 

 measurement. I 

 used these hives 

 three seasons, but 

 failed, because of 

 a number of diffi- 

 culties. I could 

 winter only a 

 small proportion 

 of the colonies in 

 these hives, and I 

 c o u 1 d n o t get 

 them to build up 

 in the spring; but 

 in spite of all this, 

 these hives dem- 

 onstrated their 

 value for the pro- 

 tluetion of fancy 

 comb honey. 



I next built lOU 

 sectional hives, 

 that had been reduced to a ^^,/ inches wide 

 on June lo. ^^ 



