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DADANT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING 



The hive encasing the bottom board has the great fault, 

 the minds of many apiarists, to prevent the tiering 



up of hive bodies, since 

 the projections would 

 keep the upper hive 

 from joining on the lower 

 one and the bees would 

 build comb between them. 

 This is true. But we have 

 found less need of tiering 

 up brood chambers than 

 the average apiarist 

 would imagine. However, 

 we are free to accept 

 this as one of the leading 

 points in the making of 

 a simplified Dadant brood 

 chamber. We have used 

 hundreds ourselves with 

 plain bottom. 



Fig. 25. Frames of the Modified Da- 

 dant hive are the same length 

 astheLangstroth frames, but 

 2yz inches deeper 



Fig. 26. The Modified Dadant hive has a 40 per cent larger brood comb 

 area than the 10 frame Langstroth 



