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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 1899" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>9 frame brood boxes were popular when 2 box brood nests were popular, cos the queen still had all the room she needed. Now with most running singles you need to get all the comb room in there you can, so 10 is the norm. Which normally is not quite enough for many queens.</p><p></p><p>End bars tended to be universally 35 mm way back and by the time they got propolised 9 frames fitted fine with a bit of a gap at each side of the box. Some American research found that swarming was reduced by brood frames spaced a bit wider than natural.</p><p></p><p>Other advantage, in those low pathogen days frames could be kept many years, cocoons built up on the cell bottoms but because the frames were spaced widely the bees could just build out a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 1899, member: 13"] 9 frame brood boxes were popular when 2 box brood nests were popular, cos the queen still had all the room she needed. Now with most running singles you need to get all the comb room in there you can, so 10 is the norm. Which normally is not quite enough for many queens. End bars tended to be universally 35 mm way back and by the time they got propolised 9 frames fitted fine with a bit of a gap at each side of the box. Some American research found that swarming was reduced by brood frames spaced a bit wider than natural. Other advantage, in those low pathogen days frames could be kept many years, cocoons built up on the cell bottoms but because the frames were spaced widely the bees could just build out a bit. [/QUOTE]
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