. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American Hee Journal Nilk %cstion-Btx^. Send Questions either to the oflice of the American Beo Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. |^° Dr. Miller does nut answer Questions by mail. Buying Bees or Makinj; Increase I am 31 years old, and I own 4 colonies of bees. I am as interested in the bee-business as I think any person can be. I have read all the bee-literature I could for i) years. At present I am taking 4 bee-papers. Would you advise me to buy more bees, or to wait until those I have increase? Wisconsin. Answer.—That depends. If you wa
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American Hee Journal Nilk %cstion-Btx^. Send Questions either to the oflice of the American Beo Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. |^° Dr. Miller does nut answer Questions by mail. Buying Bees or Makinj; Increase I am 31 years old, and I own 4 colonies of bees. I am as interested in the bee-business as I think any person can be. I have read all the bee-literature I could for i) years. At present I am taking 4 bee-papers. Would you advise me to buy more bees, or to wait until those I have increase? Wisconsin. Answer.—That depends. If you want to increase to a considerably larger number, and have an opportunity of buying a few colonies at a bargain, as sometimes happens at an auction, or when some one wants to get rid of his bees, it will be well for you to buy. But if you can't buy for less than $ a colony, then it will be more profitable tor you to run your bees tor increase than for honey. Only don't make the mistake of having a number of weak culonies on hand in the fall. It would, no doubt, be an easy thing to increase those 4 colonies to 20 or more by fall, and then lose most of them in the winter because too weak, but in the long run you will get on faster to move a little more slowly and surely. Of course, something depends upon the sea- son. In a very poor season it may not be safe to increase at all, unless you do a good deal of feeding. But if you reach next fall with 10 or 13 strong colonies, another good season ought to bring you up to 40 or so. Qiueerly Acting Colony Perhaps dueenless 1 have one colony the bees of which seem to be making a noise at the entrance and run- ning up and down the front of the hive, and all over the alighting-board. They will fly oH just a little and then back. In fact, they act queerly—as if they had been disturbed or dequeened. I have 16 colonies, all on the summer stands, and all are quiet except this one. What is the matter? Kentuckt. Answer.—It is very much
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