450 A Modern Bee-Farm 
Nearly mature brood when slightly chilled, by careless 
spreading of the brood combs, or from some accidental 
cause, will result in the bees hatching with dwarfed or 
crippled wings. Hence many of these will be found about 
the ground when attempting their first cleansing flight. 
The Langstroth Hoffman Frame is in no sense related 
to the original Hoffman frame as regards its successful 
application and dimensions, which latter are some {3ins. 
deep by 16ins. long. Mr. Hoffman wintered his bees safely 
year after year, while every Spring he had some hundred 
surplus colonies he sold to others who had lost their bees in 
shallower frames.. 
It should be noted that Messrs. Dadant & Sons, who 
edited a revised edition of Langstroth’s work, did not accept 
the Langstroth frame, but were compelled to reject it in 
favor of a much deeper frame after a 20 years’ test of the 
two sizes side by side. 
Mr. Eddowes, a very practical bee-keeper, residing now in 
Jamaica, used the 16-in. by io-in. frame as well as the 
Langstroth and the British Standard frames in the 
Argentine, and later in Jamaica. He states that from 
the first named he procured 330 lbs. of honey to the single 
stock, but no more than 150 lbs. from the Langstroth and 
British frames, standing side by side and the stocks starting 
on equal terms. He adds that with the shallower frames he 
had more trouble in securing the 150 lbs. than the larger 
yield with the deeper frames. In Jamaica he still finds the 
16-in. by 10in. better’ than the others. 
Severe Losses with Langstroth Frames.— During the 
winter of 1911-12 in the United States, some 50 to 75 per 
cent. of the colonies were lost in many localities where the 
Langstroth shallow frames were in use. 
