. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tin pail feeders in empty super. The best method of feeding syrup. who fed not at all lost three-fourths of his families. Out of 22 stocks Fe- burier lost two, the remainder swarmed very late, and some of the swarms were very feeble; whilst the liberal feeder saved all his old stocks, and his first swarms issued so early as to be succeeded by strong after- ; The reader whose bees are short will wonder how he is to do when su- gar is scarce or not to be had. There is still one remedy. Your colonies are not all of the same weight. Some are r
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tin pail feeders in empty super. The best method of feeding syrup. who fed not at all lost three-fourths of his families. Out of 22 stocks Fe- burier lost two, the remainder swarmed very late, and some of the swarms were very feeble; whilst the liberal feeder saved all his old stocks, and his first swarms issued so early as to be succeeded by strong after- ; The reader whose bees are short will wonder how he is to do when su- gar is scarce or not to be had. There is still one remedy. Your colonies are not all of the same weight. Some are richer than others and may be able to spare a little to bring the oth- ers to fruit bloom. Be sure and let none of your colonies starve. Let us bear in mind that we should secure strong colonies for the honey crop, or, as Mr. Demuth so happily put it: "We must raise our working force for the honey crop, and not on the honey ; It takes about 35 days for the egg just laid to become a field worker. So the breeding of the bulk of our colonies should be-. gin on a large scale at least 35 days before the usual honey crop begins. Let us avoid raising drones, except in the colonies which we desire as re- producers. We can go back a great many years and find some of the best teachers in agreement with us on this point. Samuel Wagner, the early pi- oneer and founder of the American Bee Journal, wrote i- April, 1861 : "The beekeeper's effort should constantly be directed to the sup- pression of drone-brood, for not- withstanding his utmost vigilance, there will be always many more drones produced in his apiary than are needed—unless queen-raising be a principal part of his business. Where honey is his object, he should sedulously foster the rearing of workers, so that, at the favorable moment, when pasturage is abundant, he may have at command a numerous body of energetic laborers, instead of having his hives crowded with a horde of worthless ; Since th
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