. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. T ne (i)ee-f\eepeps jAcvieo. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqo lr|tcrests of Hor]ey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. z, HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL, VII LiNT, MICHIGAN, JULY 10. 1895. NO. 7. Work at IVEidiigan's Experimental 15. L TAYLOK, APIARIPT. SPKING-PACKING OF BEES. T AST year fiu £j extensive ex- periment in the |i:ieldn<j of bees diirintr the spring inontlis was made wifhfi \iew to de- termiiiiut,' wheth- e r a n y benefit was to be derived from such protec- tion, or to put it ill another way, whether the warmtli retained by the
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. T ne (i)ee-f\eepeps jAcvieo. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqo lr|tcrests of Hor]ey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. z, HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL, VII LiNT, MICHIGAN, JULY 10. 1895. NO. 7. Work at IVEidiigan's Experimental 15. L TAYLOK, APIARIPT. SPKING-PACKING OF BEES. T AST year fiu £j extensive ex- periment in the |i:ieldn<j of bees diirintr the spring inontlis was made wifhfi \iew to de- termiiiiut,' wheth- e r a n y benefit was to be derived from such protec- tion, or to put it ill another way, whether the warmtli retained by the packing more than counterbalenced the sim lieat shut out by it. The result proved the pack- ing to be disastrous for a spring of the char- acter of that of 1SS»4, with bees in the condi- tion those used for that experiment were in during that time. Many of the colonies were weak in numbers and some of them not in the best of health. The spring losses were dispro[)ortionately large and the col- onies that survived did not do so well as did those without any protection. The importance of the matter prompted me to repeat the experiment the present spring but on a much smaller scale since I. had become satisfied in my own mind that at the best it could not prove very profitable. Twelve colonies were selected for the pur- pose, a history of who^e condition, reaching back to the preceding fall and up to the time when the packing was removed the 12th of the current June, was carefully kept. 8ome of the colonies showed more or less signs of having voided excrement during winter be- fore removed from the cellar, but after their first spring tlight I considered them to be in excellent health and of considerably' more than the average strength for the sea- son. So far as tlie rearing of brood was con- cerned, all the colonies were substantially alike when the t)acking was done which was effected as soon as they were thoroughly set- tled after removal from the winter quarters. At that t
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