AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



173 



• If the brood is capped over, take a 

 honey-knife and shave off the brood down 

 to within one-fourth of an inch of the 

 septum of the comb, and return it to the 

 hive. The bees will now clean it up and 

 build out the cells again the same as they 

 would work out the foundation, but the 

 honey will not have quite so nice an 

 appearance as it would if the brood never 

 had been in. Then the brood can be left 

 till the bees hatch out, and if the season 

 holds out the comb will be filled with 

 honey, which will have to be sold as 

 second quality, this being better than 

 nothing. — Stockman and Famier. 



Wlieretlie Honey is Storel 



C. W. DAYTON. 



In the accompanying diagram the 

 square designated by A, A, is the space 

 occupied by a T-frame (Langstroth size) 

 brood-nest, viewed from the ends of the 

 frames. 



The circle B, B, within the square, 

 shows the position of the brood, as the 

 bees naturally place it. 



The exact point at which the bees begin 

 to store honey is located at H, which is 

 at the upper margin of the brood. Pro- 

 ceeding from H, the storage of honey is 

 always the same at any distance or direc- 

 tion from it. 



If two racks of sections, with their bee- 

 space above the brood frames be placed 

 above the brood-nest, the inclination to 

 store honey in them, and in other parts 

 of the hive, is as represented by the 

 large circle, C, C. The bees store honey 

 as readily at one C, as at the other. 



Where the brood and honey come 

 together at H ^there is a conflict, and 

 this causes the upper side of the brood- 

 sphere to be flattened so that the brood 

 is broader horizontially than obliquely, 

 and for this reason honey will be as 

 readily stored at the points D, D, as at C, 

 in the upper part of the diagram. In 

 other words, the space at D is more use- 

 ful for the storage of honey than upper 



C, and on this account T frames full of 

 brood are nearly an exact equivalent to 

 8 frames, as we usually find them. 



With a colony in a 7-frame brood-nest 

 (equivalent to 8 frames) the bees enter 

 the surplus above by a passageway less 

 than 11 inches wide, while if the lower 

 hive should be widened to the dotted line 



D, D, the amount of brood-space that 

 adjoins the surplus is 2^ times as much, 

 and the tendency of the bees to put honey 

 outside the brood-combs is more than 



twice as much from the three sides to- 

 gether as from the one alone. 



Again, in order to put honey above 

 the brood-nest the bees must pass over 

 an apparently vacant space, or through 

 a honey-board, which is a hindrance, 

 when, in side storage, it only requires 

 the passage from one comb to an adjoin- 

 ing one in the same apartment. 



Here I wish to call the reader's atten- 

 tion to the size of hive to use. 



THE SFX'RET IX LARGE HIVES. 



The 8-frame hive we have represented 

 by the boundary line A, A. If the num- 

 ber of combs be increased to 12 or 14, 

 the hive will be widened out to the dotted 

 lines D, D. 



By prevailing contraction systems, these 

 added spaces were filled up with dum- 

 mies, and so few combs remained in the 



lower hive that, at the beginning of the 

 harvest, the bees were crowded through 

 a honey-board into a dry, uninviting 

 chamber, while, on the other hand, and 

 in the case of large hives, the bees were 

 coaxed along from comb to comb in the 

 lower story until they have stored one- 

 third to one-half a crop, and the duration 

 of the harvest one-half gone. 



Now, it is a rule that when the honey 

 harvest has continued 10 days, the col- 

 onies, though full of brood and bees at 

 first, are twice as populous as then, and 

 the hive, even if it be of large size, is 

 literally boiling over with bees. 



At this stage of the harvest no one 

 complains that the bees are not in the 

 supers, but the complaint is that they do 

 not begin in the supers until the harvest 

 is partly gone. 



In using small hives the sections are 

 filled first and Winter stores secured later, 

 but with large hives it is just the reverse. 



Clinton, Wis. 



