APIARY.
SYSTEM IN BEE-KEEPING.
In bee-keeping it is an advantage to work on certain lines, and have a system in managing all the details pertaining to the industry. I recommend the standard frame, because it is now well known, and is recognised throughout the country. This simplifies matters when speaking or writing of a frame hive.
It is of little consequence whether
the frames are two or three inches deeper or longer, quite as good results can be obtained from a recognised size such as the standard frame (and I contend that there can) it is much better to keep to the one size than for no two beekeepers to have their frames alike. The system advocated of confining
the queen to ten frames and supering with frames of the same size of shallow frames, now much used by some beekeepers, or by crates of sections, one and all have the same effect on the colony. The bees will not store their surplus honey in the brood ne3b unless ample space is provided in supers.- I have often had sixtv-three sections on a strong colony of ten frames at one time. These require to be well finished before removal. With standard frames for extracting it is different. If three parts of the cells are sealed over it will be ripe enough for extracting.— English Beekeeper.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1318, 3 June 1897, Page 5
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225APIARY. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1318, 3 June 1897, Page 5
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