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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Arraiigenietit of Brood-Fraincs 

 for Winter. 



Query 901.— Would you sepai-ate the cen- 

 tral frames in the Simplicity 8-frame hive, to 

 give the bees more room to cluster ? or would 

 you let the franies remain in winter as in the 

 summer season ?— Utah. 



I should not disturb the frames. — R. 

 L. Tayloe. 



I leave mine the same, summer and 

 winter. — C. C. Miller. 



Let the frames remain as in the sum- 

 mer season. — M. Mahin. 



I would let them remain just as they 

 are. — Emerson T. Abbott. 



I would leave the combs as the bees 

 have them. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



Of late, I leave them in winter the 

 same as in summer. — Eugene Secor. 



I would let the frames remain the 

 same as in summer. — J. P. H. Brown. 



I would leave them as in summer. It 

 is the natural way, and saves work. — A. 

 J. Cook, 



We let the frames remain in winter 

 the same as they were in the summer. — 

 — E. France. 



After trying both ways, for years, I 

 see no advantage in spreading frames 

 for winter. — G. M. Doolittle. 



Here is an idea I had never thought 

 of — and I believe it to be a good one. I 

 can see no objection. — Will M. Barnum. 



I have used both methods, and have 

 as good results to leave them in winter 

 the same as in summer. — H. D. Cutting. 



We leave the frames as they are in 

 summer. Our frames are IJ^ inches 

 apart, from center to center. — Dadant 

 & Son. 



I would let the frames remain just as 

 they are in summer. It is questionable 

 if anything is gained by changing the 

 number of franies in a hive from sum- 

 mer to winter. If more space is allowed 

 between frames in winter, the frames 



must be returned to their natural posi- 

 tion early in spring to prevent loss of 

 brood and brace-combs. ^C. H. Dibbebn. 



I have tried spreading the frames, but 

 I do not think it necessary, especially in 

 cellar wintering ; out-of-doors it might 

 be of some advantage. — S. I. Freeborn, 



I use a 10-frame Langstroth hive. In 

 winter I remove one frame, spacing the 

 nine frames evenly in the hive. This 

 gives ample room for clustering, in my 

 experience. — J. E. Pond. 



This separating of the brood-frames 

 for winter is another one of the foolish 

 things I'ecoramended to the hard-work- 

 ing bee-keeper, to add to his labor with- 

 out reason or profit. — G. L. Tinker. 



If wintered in the cellar, or properly 

 packed in chaff hives, I would not 

 spread the brood-frames ; but if win- 

 tered on the summer stands, in single- 

 walled hives, I would remove one frame, 

 and spread the other seven equal dis- 

 tances. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



Let them remain in winter as in sum- 

 mer, but place a "Hill's device" over 

 the top of the frames, for the bees to 

 cluster under, and spread a cloth of 

 Indian-head muslin over the top of the 

 device, and put in a chaff cushion, or 

 box filled with chaff. — Mrs. L. Harri- 

 son. 



I formerly did, but for several years 

 I have put them away for winter with- 

 out removing any. In preparing my 

 bees for winter, in September or Octo- 

 ber, I put a frame of honey to one side 

 of the hive, usually the south, and then 

 the frames of brood, and fill the rest of 

 the hive with frames of honey. — A. B. 

 Mason. 



There is some advantage in having the 

 frames separated for winter, but they 

 must be brought back to the usual dis- 

 tance as soon as breeding begins in the 

 spring. As I do not believe in opening 

 hives at that time, I have come to the 

 conclusion that it does not pay me to 

 change the position of combs. — Jas. A. 

 Green. 



I would leave them just as they are 

 spaced in the summer. I have worked a 

 great number of hives with the frames 

 1}4 inches from center to center of the 

 frames, and while the brood-nests do 

 not present as tidy appearance as when 

 1% spacing is adopted, I sometimes 

 think that the wide spacing gives the 

 most prosperous colonies. Some hints 

 given by that practical honey-producer 

 and writer — Chas. Dadant — first called 

 my attention to this matter. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



