. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. Tb e (i>ee- eepeps fvevieoLi A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $1,00 A YEAR, ¥. z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL, VII FLINT, MiCHiGAN, JAN, 10. 1895. NO, Work at IVdIicliigan's Experimental Apiary. U. L. TAYLOR, APIARIST. [Read at the Michitran State Convention.] Q'INCE this As- )⠣) fiociationa year ago saw fit to aiipoint a com- mittee to assist in directing the apicultnral work of the station it is fitting, if not to be expected, that I should make at this an- nual meeting something of a report of the opera
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. Tb e (i>ee- eepeps fvevieoLi A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $1,00 A YEAR, ¥. z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL, VII FLINT, MiCHiGAN, JAN, 10. 1895. NO, Work at IVdIicliigan's Experimental Apiary. U. L. TAYLOR, APIARIST. [Read at the Michitran State Convention.] Q'INCE this As- )⠣) fiociationa year ago saw fit to aiipoint a com- mittee to assist in directing the apicultnral work of the station it is fitting, if not to be expected, that I should make at this an- nual meeting something of a report of the operations in tliis line under my charge. It is with serious regret that I have to re- port that the character of the sea-on has been such as to greatly interfere with the making of many of the experiments pro- jected and in several cases prevented their execution altogether. Of this latter class were all those that depended upon a consid- erable amount of swarming, such a-s the comparison of the amount of work diiio by natural swarms with that done by made swarms, tlie co nparisou of the sidvantages of comb fouaJdtioa aud starters in hives. used for the reception of new swarms and the trial of hivers and non-swarmers. The experiment for the comparison of starters, foundation and comb, was made in the sea- son of 1893, but for several reasons besides the one that no single experiment in such matters should ever be taken as final, I greatly desired to repeat it under a set of circumstances that experience and further thought have suggested, such as to give promise of something more nearly approach- ing a crucial test. The impossibility of carrying out the intended comparison of natural with made swarms, was a disap- pointment, as the comparison seems to give promise of sometliiug of much value to many in the management of an apiary. There was some swarming in the apiary, but not sufficient to furnish swarms that could fairly be compared, since intelligent work requires the issui
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