One of the reasons for using a one-story instead of a two-story Langstroth brood chamber is because it requires a minimum of equipment. If no increase is wanted, two to five extra hive bodies should be enough for 100 colonies. It is particularly applicable when the operator visits his bees frequently and regularly. Besides being an excellent system for the production of comb honey, it is also satisfactory for producing extracted honey.

The Modified Dadant hive is particularly adapted to the one story brood chamber management. With its large brood chamber and special shallow supers, the queen stays in the brood chamber much better than when smaller brood chambers and deep supers are used. When the Modified Dadant hive is used in conjunction with the clear brood nest management, the minimum amount of time is necessary to care for each colony, making it possible usually to operate more bees than with two-story brood chambers. The Modified Dadant hive is particularly adaptable to the production of bulk comb honey.

Clear brood nest system No. 1; a one-story brood chamber used all the year.

The one-story clear brood nest system is best for those who wish to study bees intensively, to become experts, or "bee masters. " When the student has mastered the principles involved, he can adjust and simplify his practice in accordance with personal preference and local conditions, evolving a system of management requiring a minimum amount of man labor and employing either a one-story or two-story brood chamber with equally good results. Knowing the amount of brood needed, and when it must be produced to secure his standard colony, he may even devise a plan of work involving annual requeening of all colonies and no changing of queens during the honey season. He may also modify other details of practice, always keeping in mind the importance of the principles which underlie the factors involved in honey production and the essentials of practice as already discussed.