. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 510 of Beeton, Dr. Shaver, of Stratford, and other gentlemen in the course of the discussion, gave their opinions backed by relations of their own experience, the preponderance of opinion being evi- dently in favor of artiticial swarming, save under exceptional circumstances. Mr. Jones was asked " How far apart would you keep the hives on one farm ?" Mr. Jones replied that the distance between his hives in the row was 3 feet, and between the rows 6 feet. Question.—Have you any choice in the direction in which your hives face V Mr. Jones answ
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 510 of Beeton, Dr. Shaver, of Stratford, and other gentlemen in the course of the discussion, gave their opinions backed by relations of their own experience, the preponderance of opinion being evi- dently in favor of artiticial swarming, save under exceptional circumstances. Mr. Jones was asked " How far apart would you keep the hives on one farm ?" Mr. Jones replied that the distance between his hives in the row was 3 feet, and between the rows 6 feet. Question.—Have you any choice in the direction in which your hives face V Mr. Jones answered that it might be a notion of his, but he preferred the hives facing east and south. Mr. Hall, I think it is a notion. My hives faced in every direction. I have noticed no difference. Mr. McKay claimed that the bees in the hive on which the sun shone early got to work early, and that was an ad- vantage. Several important and interesting subjects were discussed. The best method of " breeding pure queens " was considered at some length, as was also "the province and value of drones in ; On the subject, " The best method of marketing honey," Mr. D. A. Jones gave some information calculated to be of use to bee-keepers and of no little interest to the general public. He stated that while in England he had made particular inquires as to the means of marketing honey. He had been told by one firm that they would gladly give 22c. per pound for 100 tons of extracted honey. He trusted that they would be able to so arrange that they could send their honey direct to the dealer in Eng- land, and he believed that the Associa- tion could be so well organized, and be- come so well known, that the English dealer would order direct from them. If this was done, he had no doubt that they could find a market at good prices for all the honey they could produce. He believed, however, that if the honey was put up in small and appropriate packages, held until
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