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quite aware of the immense advantage of admitting the 
sun’s rays during Winter, and recommended that a piece 
of glass be let into the outer wall of double-sided hives. 
However, double-packed walls to stock hives seldom pay 
for the extra expense, and besides being more cumbersome, 
are a positive nuisance during the heat of Summer, when 
shade is required as offered in the Conqueror Hive, rather 
than additional heat. For as a matter of fact packed 
walls cannot be cool in Summer, as the advocates of the 
same would have us believe. Why the more frequent 
swarming complained of with these? and are we not told 
that more warmth is given in Winter? how much more 
then, zm excess, in Summer ! 
Packed Walls to Supers 
must be considered a very different thing, and just here is 
where the heat is needed, not only to attract the bees to 
start comb-building, but to keep them constantly producing 
wax, even during. cool nights. The rule is to provide 
flimsy walls to the super crates or none at all in most 
cases where racks only are adopted. Here is a strange 
contradiction in the practice of the majority ; and yet it is 
well known that heat—the constant reservation of heat— 
will always bring the best work in the supers. 
Frames in the Conqueror Hives. 
As the Conqueror chambers hang clear of the floor, the 
position of the frames is immaterial, the hive having a deep 
entrance giving very free access to light and air. 
The outer case is protective, and with each gleam of 
sunshine the whole interior of the hive is warmed up as 
one finds a greenhouse, hence as a matter of economy in 
construction of the single Conqueror the frames are placed 
across the entrance. In the double hiye they are at right 
angles to the entrance. 
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