HIVES 
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ginner, to follow in the beaten paths, or, 
more exactly, use standard ten-frame Lang- 
stroth hives and equipment. As a rule, bees 
will sell at a higher price in these hives 
than when they are in something that is 
odd-sized or irregular. Moreover, the av¬ 
erage dealer or beehive manufacturer al¬ 
ways has the standard equipment in stock. 
While the regular Langstroth may require 
extra manipulation and extra lifting (if 
they be compared with the long-idea hive), 
it would be wise to use these hives until 
the general public has proved that what 
packing-cases, as the single walls hardly 
afford sufficient protection to enable the 
average colony to go thru the winter safe¬ 
ly, or without great loss both in bees and 
in stores. The poorer the protection, the 
greater the consumption of stores. A col¬ 
ony poorly protected outdoors will prob¬ 
ably consume twice as much as one ade¬ 
quately protected and with the possible 
handicap of dysentery. 
In the South, of course it is not neces¬ 
sary to carry the single-walled hives into 
the cellar or winter repository, but north 
Long-idea hive holding twenty-five Langstroth frames. Two regular 10-frame supers may be placed side 
by side on this hive, as it is two and a half times the size of a regular 10-frame hive. 
some may call ‘‘freaks are better than the 
standards. 
DOUBLE-WALLED OR CHAFF 
HIVES. 
The hives thus far described and illustrat¬ 
ed are what may be called single-walled 
hives; that is, the outer shell or case con¬ 
sists of a single-board thickness of lumber. 
Such hives in the northern climates, as a 
rule, cannot very well be wintered outdoors 
on their summer stands. They must either 
be carried into the cellar at the approach 
of cold weather, or else be put in outside 
of latitude 40, hives of single-board thick¬ 
ness ought to be either housed or protected 
with winter cases. Where one from choice 
or necessity has to winter outdoors, what 
are known as double-walled hives should be 
used. These have the same inside dimen¬ 
sions as the single-walled hive, and are 
generally made to take the same supers and 
the same inside furniture. The one shown 
in the illustration next following repre¬ 
sents a ten-frame Langstroth single-story 
double-walled hive; and as it represents 
the simplest form of wintering hive, we 
will describe this only, leaving the reader 
