Excerpt from Gleanings in Bee Culture. 1878, Vol. 6 Would it be advisable to make the Simplicity wider, so as to hold 4 wide frames in lower story This would make the upper story more cumbersome. But give necessary surplus room without a. Third story. Man experiments have been made with wider hives, and we have this season tried just the arrangement you propose, but the outside sections were very imperfectly filled; I suppose they were too far from the brood. The width of the hives, as we make them, is I think about right, if an upper story is used; and this we can not afford to dis ense with, unless the colony is very smal A third story will seldom, if ever, be needed if the sections are removed as fast as filled and capped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.