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entrance, because then the air can blow in 
clear thru the hive, cooling it in hot 
weather. 
The advocates of the thirteen-frame hive, 
like those of the twelve-framers, claim al¬ 
most immunity from swarming, and a hive 
large enough to accommodate practically 
all of the best queens. It is very seldom 
that any queen will go beyond 14 frames of 
brood, so that the thirteen-frame reaches 
the maximum capacity of most queens. 
TWO-STORY TEN-FRAME OR EIGHT-FRAME 
LANGSTROTH HIVES. 
Where the eight or ten frame hive is 
used, it is customary to have the colony 
breed in two stories. As already explained, 
the average queen will go beyond ten 
frames. If she or the bees are not given 
unlimited room for breeding, cells may be 
started and a swarm may follow. To pre¬ 
vent this it is usually customary to put on 
another hive-body, or upper story contain¬ 
ing combs.- In order to start the queen 
above, one or more combs of brood are put 
upstairs, and the empty ones from the up¬ 
stairs are put downstairs, preferably on 
either side of the brood-nest. The brood in 
the upper story induces the queen to go 
above when she might not otherwise do so, 
and thus expand the brood-nest, with the 
result that there may be thirteen or four¬ 
teen frames of brood, the other frames con¬ 
taining honey or pollen. In the production 
of comb honey it is customary, at the be¬ 
ginning of the flow, to put all the sealed 
brood in the lower story, removing the up¬ 
per story and putting the other combs of 
brood in a weak colony. A super of sec¬ 
tions is then put on the lower story, from 
which the upper story was removed. See 
“Comb Honey” and “Swarming,” partic¬ 
ularly the subjects of prevention and con¬ 
trol of swarming. When producing ex¬ 
tracted honey the practice is to put a 
queen-excluder between the upper and 
lower stories after the flow starts, with the 
queen below. 
One reason why the ten-frame hive is so 
popular is because many beekeepers believe 
that the twelve and thirteen frame hives 
are too heavy to lift—that tjie ten is laige 
enough; that by the use of two stories, and 
raising brood in the upper story, all the 
breeding room that the queen needs, will 
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be afforded and at the same time swarm¬ 
ing will be kept under control. 
The author has tried to control swarm¬ 
ing by using two-story brood-nests, and 
finds that swarming is held under control 
nearly if not the same as in the larger 
hives with the advantage that everything 
is standard. 
Ninety-nine per cent of the honey-pro¬ 
ducers of the country are using hives of 
Langstroth dimensions. It is possible for 
the expert beekeeper or the novice if he 
will study directions carefully, to manipu¬ 
late his brood-chambers of Langstroth di¬ 
mensions so that he not only can secure 
the maximum amount of brood and bees of 
the right age for the harvest, but he will 
be able to keep down swarming, for the 
production of extracted honey or for 
comb honey. For particulars regarding 
this see Swarm Control, under Swarming. 
LONG-IDEA HIVES. 
Some 50 years ago the long-idea hive%— 
that is, 30 and 35 frame hives all in one 
brood-nest—were advocated by various bee¬ 
keepers in the United States. Many at the 
time were very enthusiastic in praise of 
this hive; but when comb foundation and 
the one-pound section honey-box came to 
the front these hives were dropped by 
nearly every one because they were not 
adapted to the production of comb honey. 
In later years, especially during and fol¬ 
lowing the period of.the Great War, ex¬ 
tracted honey was produced almost exclu¬ 
sively. During this time attention was 
again directed to the Dadant-Quinby hive, 
the ten-frame Jumbo, practically the same 
thing, and the twelve and thirteen frame 
hives. The last two mentioned, it was ar¬ 
gued, would not have to be tiered so high, 
because three thirteen-frame hives, for ex¬ 
ample, would be the approximate equiva¬ 
lent of five eight-frame hives that would 
be so top-heavy and tall that they would 
require rails or props to keep them from 
being blown over. The ten-frame Jumbo 
requires two sizes of frames—one for the 
brood-nest and one for the extracting- 
supers. 
While quite a number were favoring the 
larger hives of the styles mentioned, there 
were a few who were going back to the old 
long-idea hive containing all the way from 
