. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Canadian rBc^c^dom. Conducted by J. L. BVEK. Jlount Joy. Unt. Busy With the Bees I am very busy (June 15). Colonies got ahead of me, owing to bad weather, and it was quite a job to break up swarming after the fever was con- tracted. I will have quite a blank dur- ing fruit-bloom and clover, and it will pay to feed, as I will have to be away for about 2 weeks steady, so the best I can do is to leave the colonies heavy with honey and let them take chances. As the majority of them have lots of unsealed honey from fruit, in the supers, they will not sutle
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Canadian rBc^c^dom. Conducted by J. L. BVEK. Jlount Joy. Unt. Busy With the Bees I am very busy (June 15). Colonies got ahead of me, owing to bad weather, and it was quite a job to break up swarming after the fever was con- tracted. I will have quite a blank dur- ing fruit-bloom and clover, and it will pay to feed, as I will have to be away for about 2 weeks steady, so the best I can do is to leave the colonies heavy with honey and let them take chances. As the majority of them have lots of unsealed honey from fruit, in the supers, they will not sutler for a week or two. J. L. BVER. ence I have not lost a dozen colonies by starvation, yet I am still learning the necessity of abundance of good stores in the fall. Mr. Storer. of Lindsay, winters his bees in a perfect cellar, and yet every colony must have 40 pounds of stores. I am thoroughly convinced that he is on the safe side, and if necessary some years, it is no great trouble to relieve the brood-nest. This year our large, heavy brood-nests needed no relief. Alexander Plan of Building Up Weak Colonies Bees Starved in the Cellar Editor Hutchinson tells, in the Re- view, of losing a large number of colo- nies in the cellar through starvation. The cold weather prevented taking the bees from the cellar until nearly the first of May, and, as a result, as has been mentioned, a lot of them starved. While in all my bee-keeping experi- While the Alexander plan for build- ing up weak colonies is good when sin- gle-walled hives are used, yet it is al- most of no value to those bee-keepers who winter their bees on the summer- stands, as >uch hives can not be tiered up. This spring I blundered on to a plan that is simply "immense" when you want to have a good queen that has only a few bees with her. When clipping at one yard 2 weeks agn. I found 2 young Italian tjuecns that I brnight last fall, with only almut a of bees with each. Having found the queens in 2 e
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