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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Kis. 1.— Mr. P.. K. Schmidt, of i i. mi \ ista. Iowa, with aswaii i lii 



anil. In spite of the fart that tlils apiar.v is located in the shade of 

 an orchard. Mr. Scliniidt finds it a gocd jdan to u.se shade- 

 iHjards. and to raise the hives from tlie liottoni- 

 board,s as sliown in the next engraviiii?. 



and IS inches long, with the frames hang- 

 ing crosswise. These frames were 5 ' s U)4, 

 inside measurement — 11 to each section, and 

 two sections for eaeli colony in winter. I 

 have in use something like 7000 of these 

 shallow frames, Fig. 1, and they have i)roven 

 to be very satisfactory, both during winter 

 and in the spring when the colonies were 

 building up for the honey-llow! The Salis- 

 bury frame was 

 too shallow to 

 hold hone y 

 enough above 

 the cluster to 

 carry a colony 

 throttgh the 

 cold weather. 

 Undotiljtedly 

 m y inexi)eri- 

 e n c e was r e - 

 sponsible for 

 some of the 

 failures that I 

 made with this 

 first frame. 



the ii8e of 

 the sec'tion- 

 aij hive and 



THE SHAL- 

 LOW FRAME. 



In a mo- 

 ment's time, 

 with the sec- 

 tional hive we 

 can provide a 

 very large 



brood - chamber or a 

 very small one by add- 

 ing to or taking away 

 one or more sections. 

 For instance, if a colo- 

 ny is below normal 

 strength it may be giv- 

 en a single section in 

 the early part of the 

 season, thus reducing 

 the brood-chamber to 

 the requirements of 

 the colony. Again, a 

 good colony just en- 

 tering f r u i t - b 1 o o m 

 needs more room; but 

 to add a full - dei)th 

 brood-chamber above 

 would tlo more harm 

 than good, for the vol- 

 ume of such is too 

 large for the bees to 

 maintain the proi)er 

 temperature for brood- 

 rearing. Thus the bees 

 have to cluster more 

 closely than they do 

 before the extra room 

 is given, which reduces 

 the brood-nest instead 

 of enlarging it. If half 

 the space, or, in other 

 words, a single shallow 

 section of a hive be 

 given, the colony will be able to occupy it. 



The sectional hive plays a very imjjortant 

 ro/r in the production of a large croj) of fan- 

 cy comb honey. JJy means of it we gi\e 

 the bees sufficient room to keep them from 

 getting the swarming fever when they are 

 gathering lioney at the ojieningof the main 

 flow. At svich a time I take away all but 

 one section of the brood-nest by smoking 



A s\\ ai lu llial clustered in a convenient ijlace lor hi\ in^ 



