MOVABLE-FKAME HIVES. 



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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. 



G a' 



H B 



Fig. 60. 



DIAGEAMS OF GALLUP AND LANQSTKOTH HIVES. 

 (Fromtlie "A. B. C. of Bee-Cnlture.") 



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 tliat the sides of the clusters 



A. B. and C. D. (fig. 60) are better protected than the ends G. H. 

 and E. P., and also that the long frames protect the center of the 

 brood-nest much better than the short ones." — (A. I. Eoot, " A. 



B. C") 



Even a cross-bar through a frame (fig. 64) 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, 



