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Show PRODUCTION OF C0M0-H0NEY On f Fundamental Requirements of Equipment In Hlvss Is That Thy B Uniform In fix. IHT GEORGE 8. PEUTTn ) A beehlv roust aerv tb dual pur pose of being a home for a colony of bees and at tb sam time a tool for th beekeeper. Its main requirement require-ment ar along tb line of It adaptation to th various maxiipula tlona of th apiary In so far as these do not materially Interfere with th rotettton and comfort It affords tb colony of bees. Sine rapid manlpu latton is greatly facilitated by simple and uniform apparatua. one of the fundamental requirements of the equipment In hives Is that they be of tb sam atjl and site, with all pvtt exactly alike and interchange jle throughout the apiary. While th hives and equipment should b as simple and Inexpensive as possible, sronslstent with their varloua functions, func-tions, a cheap and poorly constructed beehive la. all things considered, an expensive piece of apparatus. For comb honey production the brood chamber should be of such a site that by proper management it may be well filled with brood at the beginning of the honey flow, so that th brood and surplus apartments may be definitely separated. A brood chamber may be considered too large If by proper management it la not on ao average fairly wall filled with Super With 8ectlon Holder for Bee-way Bee-way Sections. brood at the beginning of the honey Bow, and too small If it provides an average of leas room than the colony la able to occupy with brood previous to the honey flow. Unless the beekeeper bee-keeper practices feeding, a brood chamber that doee not contain sum clent room for both winter stores and brood rearing during late summer and autumn may also be considered too small. It may be well to note that by this standard, If the brood chamber seems to be too small the fault may lie In th management during the previous autumn, winter or spring. Of course the brood chamber that Is barely large enough for one colony will be too large for another In the sam apiary, or the character of the season may be such that all brood I chambers may be too small for best results on season and too large the , next, so an average must be sought. The sectional blve In which the brood chamber Is composed of two or mor shallow blve bodies, making It i horizontally divisible, offers some ad - vantages, especially to the comb-I comb-I honey specialist. Most of the ordinary i manipulations ran be performed , readily with such hives without re-I re-I moving the frames. One of their i greatest advantages In combhoney . production is th rapidity with which the apiarist can examine the colonies i for queen cells If natural swarming Is I to be controlled by manipulation. I Some of th advantages of th plain I over tb beeway sections are: (11 I j They are simpler In construction, p ! therefor costing less. (2) The edges r! being plain with no inseta, the plain i j sections ar more easily cleaned ol I proiolis when being prepared for I . market and ar especially adapted to cleaning by machinery. 13) By i leaving tb spacers In the super, sec- - tlons of the same honey content oc i rupy less space In the shipping case, - thus reducing the cost of packagea. (4) The plain section Is adapted to an t arrangement permitting rreer com-I com-I munlcatlon lengthwise or the row ol sections, especially at th corners. Some or the advantages of the bee-way bee-way section are: (1) The hooey li somewhat less liable to injury bj handling. (2) Ilelng wider at the 'fj- l - -v. 1., ' .. -.i Beeway and Plain Sections, Unfolded ' corners where folded, they an stronger. (3) Bom markets, belni ' accustomed to the larger case neces r sary to contain a given number o beeway sections, object to the smalle ' package containing the aam ncmbe: 1 of plain sections, simply because it 1 smaller. t |
