. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 544 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Aug. 3, 190S swarm I (iivicied them, letting the queenless part rear its own queen. I also found a couple of bee-trees in the woods. These I cut down and transferred, so now I have 8 colonies, some strong and some weak. They all have laying queens now (July 10). and if we "have seasonable weather from now on I am in hopes will all be in good shape for win- tering. .There is quite a lot of big timber here yet. and a good many bee-trees are cut every fall. I have often seen col- onies starving to death where the tree ha
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 544 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Aug. 3, 190S swarm I (iivicied them, letting the queenless part rear its own queen. I also found a couple of bee-trees in the woods. These I cut down and transferred, so now I have 8 colonies, some strong and some weak. They all have laying queens now (July 10). and if we "have seasonable weather from now on I am in hopes will all be in good shape for win- tering. .There is quite a lot of big timber here yet. and a good many bee-trees are cut every fall. I have often seen col- onies starving to death where the tree had been rohbed. I always felt sorry for the bees and wished I could do some- thing to keep them from perishing. 1. If I should have some weak colonies this fall, say covering 4 or 5 Langstroth frames, could I unite with one of these "naked" colonies? 2. Would it be an advantage to me, or otherwise? 3. How much more stores would it take to winter the united colonies than the weak colony by itself? Missouri. Answers.—1. Yes, you could thus have a strong colony instead of a weak one, but you must take more pains as to uniting in fall than during a flow, and of course you must look out to have stores enough. 2. It would be an advantage to have a strong colony rather than a weak one. 3. I don't know just how much, but at a guess I would say that if you unite two weak colonies of equal strength, the united colony would not need more than 50 per cent more than either of the colonies separately. If that be a correct guess, you will see that it would be a saving of one- fourth of the stores. More important than that, it would, in many cases, be a saving of one or both of the colonies. Sweet Mixture for Winter Stores Would a mixture of sugar, "sugarall" and corn-starch do to feed bees for winter stores? Of course most of the starch will settle to the bottom so the syrup could be poured off. I can get any amount of this mixture for nothing as I handle the syrup after
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