rdixon520
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What is the difference between a Deep National and a Dartington hive?
What is the difference between a Deep National and a Dartington hive?
Indeed. The definitive guide to the National is the Ministry of Agriculture Advisory Leaflet 367 dated 1961. Scanned versions are available on various web sites, search is your friend.The term "deep national" is frequently misused and misunderstood...
I would strongly suggest that you get a hold of the splendid (and free) guide to the diversity of equipment available to beekeepers.
Indeed. The definitive guide to the National is the Ministry of Agriculture Advisory Leaflet 367 dated 1961. Scanned versions are available on various web sites, search is your friend.
Thorne's are the biggest UK supplier and have the shiniest and most comprehensive catalogue. Other suppliers are available, Maisemore, for instance don't make Dartington hives but also have an illustrated list of frame parts in their catalogue, plus other leaflets and diagrams. If you are assembling Nationals from flat, many find the Maisemore assembly sequence easier to follow.
What is the difference between a Deep National and a Dartington hive?
Yes, as I said, Thorne's seem to have the most comprehensive catalogue, now including even the Dartington.
But there certainly are some things that they simply don't offer - full sized poly hives (to any design) for example.
And there are lots of other lovely catalogues available, including Maisemore's!
Not that its anything to do with either the OP or catalogues, but I am one of those who find Maisemore's wooden National assembly sequence easier to get right.
But for the answer to the OP's question, a look through the Thorne's 2014 catalogue would have provided the answer.
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