and its Economic Management. 147 



as it is quite unnecessary, and not intended that the Com- 

 mercial stock frames should be extracted from. 



Convincing Facts 



relating to the superiority of large frames and large hives 

 were given some years ago by a writer in Gleanings, a 

 prominent American bee journal. After stating that he 

 preferred the Quinby frame, which is even larger than my 

 Commercial, while at the same time he had also the 

 smaller Langstroth frame in use, he says : " But as we 

 found again and again, that the smallest crops came from 

 the smallest hives, on the average, and that whenever the 

 crop was short, twenty seven out of every thirty small 

 hives had to be fed, while the large colonies had gener- 

 ally enough, we transferred all the bees out of these 

 Langstroth hives. , . . For twenty years our large 

 hives have given us better results than our small ones. . . 

 I have the Bulletin d' Apiculture for October, 1894, and 

 I find in it twelve selections from letters coming from 

 Switzerland, Belgium, France and Spain, praising the large 

 hives and the " Dadant" hives, showing by comparison that 

 they are more profitable than smaller hiyes." 



Captain Hetherington, another extensive American 

 bee-keeper, working nearly a thousand colonies at a time, 

 is "also assured that nothing but a large frame would 

 give him a certain income year after year, and the position 

 he has attained as a king among honey producers is 

 undoubtedly one of the most convincing arguments I can 

 bring forward. 



For Comb Honey. 



The Commercial Hive is used with eight frames and 

 two dummies, i|-in. thick, either packed or used as dry 

 feeders ; or the sides may be permanently packed, the 

 object being to keep as narrow a brood nest or cluster as 



