MOVABLE-FRAME IIIVES. 149 
302. A two-story shallow brood-chamber is objection- 
able for the same reason. Besides, the bees which 
cover the brood and keep it warm, must also keep warm 
the lower bar of the top frame, the upper bar of the lower 
frame, and the space between the two, without deriving any 
benefit from such an arrangement. This division of the 
brood-combs into two shallow stories, is one of the causes, 
which prevent the bee-keepers of Germany from raising as 
many bees, in their hives, as we do here in the ordinary 
Langstroth hives. This disadvantage was so evident that 
the bee-keepers of Switzerland, who had adopted, as a 
standard, the Berlepsch hive (fig. 55), decided to replace 
the double story by a single one of the same dimension, as 
the Italian bee-keepers had done before, but for half the 
hive only. 
Fig. 60. 
DIAGRAMS OF GALLUP AND LANGSTROTH HIVES. 
(From the ‘‘A. B. C. of Bee-Culture.’’) 
A small frame like the Gallup (fig. 59), presents another 
objection, the cluster being divided among a greater num- 
ber of frames. 
“For Winter, it is evident that the sides of the clusters 
A. B. and C. D. (fig. 60) are better protected than the ends G. H. 
and E. F., and also that the long frames protect the center of the 
brood-nest much better than the short ones.”—(A. I. Root, “A. 
B. C.’’) 
Even a cross-bar through a frame (fig. 54) will hinder 
the laying of the queen, so that brood will often be raised 
only on one side of it. Any one can easily try this. 
