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DADANT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING 



combs over those hives, in the spring, the queens would go up 

 into those supers and lay eggs, after they had filled the lower 

 story. Mr. Dadant senior then tried Quinby hives of different 

 capacities, up to 20 frames of comb, or with a capacity of 3780, 

 square inches of comb. These were too large by all means, 



Fig. 7 , Twenty frame Dadant hive tried by Charles Dadant 



and although we used some 40 of them for several years, we 

 could only produce honey on what was later called "the long 

 idea,' that is to say we had both brood and surplus honey in 

 the same apartment. Although the colony usually occupied 

 one side of the hive with brood, the queen often roamed from 

 one end of the hive to the other and honey sometimes had to be 

 extracted from combs containing brood, a very undesirable 

 arrangement. 



To give the reader an idea of the number of hive ex- 

 periments made by the senior Dadant, we will say that he 

 tried hives with frames 18x18 inches, looking like regular barns. 



