138 PRODUCTION OF COMB HONEY 
cipal argument in their favor is to the effect that the queen will 
require most of the available space in the brood nest and that 
the bees will quickly be forced to begin storing in the supers. 
Thousands of colonies of bees have died as a result of the adoption 
of this hive by persons who were not fully prepared to give proper 
attention to their bees. Nearly every year a part of the colonies 
in any apiary will not leave a sufficient amount of honey in the 
brood chamber of these small hives to winter on, and unless fed 
will die as a matter of course 
from lack of food. 
The tendency to swarm is 
much greater in these small 
hives than in larger ones, and 
swarm control is important to 
the comb honey producer. 
‘Most authorities now agree 
that the ten-frame Langstroth 
hive is better for all purposes 
than a smaller one. The 
reason the Langstroth is 
recommended in preference 
to others of the same size is 
because its use is so much 
Fra. 66.—Parts of a comb heney hive. more general than any other 
hive (Fig. 66). 
If the small hive is used two hive bodies instead of one should 
usually be used for wintering, when packed outside. 
It may be said in passing, however, that C. C. Miller, who 
has produced larger average yields of comb honey than any others 
on record, uses the eight-frame Langstroth hive. It is doubtful 
whether he would use such a small hive if he was starting again. 
While the hive is important, the management after all is the 
determining factor in measuring the profit of an apiary, next to 
the available supply of nectar in the field. 
Sections.—Next to the kind of hive the question of the kind 
