Circular No. 69 



Equipment 

 Hive. It is not pr#table to keep bees in boxes, nail kegs, 

 or hollow logs, since it is impossible to learn the condition of the 

 bees The wax moth and bee diseases lurk in these old-fashioned 

 bee houses. Much of the surplus honey is lost because swarm- 

 ing cannot be controlled and, in the honey that is secured, there 

 IS often found bee-bread and young brood. There is a great 



Fig-. 1— A 10-frame Langstroth hive with metal cover. 



cinnual loss in bees, due to insufficient amount of stores, as 

 there is no way of examining the colony in regard to the quan- 

 tity of honey needed by the bees. 



On the other hand, where the movable -frame hives are 

 used, the bees can be examined by lifting out the frames of comb 

 to see whether there is plenty of brood or whether disease is 

 present. A larger jdeld of honey is secured because swarming 

 can be controlled to a certain extent and larger colonies built 



