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DADANT SYSTEil OF BEKEEEPING 



The ten-frame Quinby brood chamber which is now called 

 the "Dadant hive, "contains 1890 square inches of comb or 

 540 square inches more than the 10-frame Langstroth. That 

 this brood chamber is sufficient and the 10-frame Lang- 

 stroth insufficient, for the average prolific queen, in spring, 

 was ascertained positively by us when, about 1876, we handled 

 several hundred of these hives under exactly the same manage- 

 ment, side by side with 110 10-frame Langstroth hives, which 

 we had leased for honey production from an old Missouri 



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Fig. 9. Eight-frame Langstroth hive and Dadant hive side by side 



beekeeper by the name of Barlow. During the month of May 

 quite a number of the Langstroth colonies, having been given 

 supers of built combs, began to breed in those supers, 

 while none of the queens in the Quinby-Dadant hives occu- 

 pied the supers. This was clear evidence that it took more 



