. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 331. CONDUCTED BY Greenville. Texas kjkjm, Oiir Scliool in Bee-Keeping. FIFTH LESSON—PRODUCING HONEY ON A LARGE SCALE. You must, to be a successful bee- keeper, study your honey locality, and know just about what time each plant blooms, and be venj particular to note down those that give you your crops. Work your bees to have them ready to catch all you can, as a few days too late has lost a good part of many a bountiful harvest. Now we will go through the operation of producing honey on a large scale— say an apiary of 100 coloni
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 331. CONDUCTED BY Greenville. Texas kjkjm, Oiir Scliool in Bee-Keeping. FIFTH LESSON—PRODUCING HONEY ON A LARGE SCALE. You must, to be a successful bee- keeper, study your honey locality, and know just about what time each plant blooms, and be venj particular to note down those that give you your crops. Work your bees to have them ready to catch all you can, as a few days too late has lost a good part of many a bountiful harvest. Now we will go through the operation of producing honey on a large scale— say an apiary of 100 colonies or more. This is an important lesson, and pay strict attention, as I would not have you to fail now for a good, big sum. Producing honey on a large scale is the same as on a small scale, except that it seems our skill must be greater to make a large apiary pay as well as a small one, in proportion. But after we get the " hang of it," it is easier to get our bees in good condition to gather in the harvest, as we have more bees, and can take from one and help another, and get the whole apiary in about the same shape to catch the harvest. I know that some apiarists don't approve of doing this, but where it can be done long before the honey-flow, it is the best thing to do, as we can have our colonies all equalized in time for them to start off on the sections, or in the extracting supers, at the same time. It is no use to be wasting brood on a colony that has a poor queen. You had better pinch her head off at once, and let them rear a queen, or give them one from some other source. One of the main reasons why we fail in a large apiary is, we neglect our duty, and do not have our extra hives, supers, and sections all ready, just because it is a bigger job. And now I will tell you that it is just as important to prepare for 100 colonies as it is for one, or more so, as the loss is not so great with a few. But, to sum it all up, we can make a large apiary pay as well
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