Gleanings in bee culture . maple in the woods in the country hasat this date, April 30, not yet come into bloom— fully three weeks later than is generallythe case, and the latest I can rememberits coming in. Unless stimulative feedinghas been practiced, there is a very limitedamount of brood in the hive. TWO OF MORE LAYING QUEENS IN ONE HIVE, I have now the peimission of F. A. Lock-hart, Lake George, N. Y., with whom I havehad a good deal of business dealing, to tellpublicly that he has been practicing having several laying queens in one hive for fiveyears. He told me of this privately sometim
Gleanings in bee culture . maple in the woods in the country hasat this date, April 30, not yet come into bloom— fully three weeks later than is generallythe case, and the latest I can rememberits coming in. Unless stimulative feedinghas been practiced, there is a very limitedamount of brood in the hive. TWO OF MORE LAYING QUEENS IN ONE HIVE, I have now the peimission of F. A. Lock-hart, Lake George, N. Y., with whom I havehad a good deal of business dealing, to tellpublicly that he has been practicing having several laying queens in one hive for fiveyears. He told me of this privately sometime ago. He writes, You are the onlyparty I ever told any thing about managingbees by using two or more queens in a new system for building up strong col-onies in the spiing, and for i-earing largeprolific queens and mating the same fromthe parent hive, is a dandy. I have profited immensely by visits amongNew York State bee-keepers, and I am grate-ful to them for many hints, and have re-spected their PROFITS IN BEE-KEEPING. Modern 3Ietho(ls Reduce the Cost of Pro-duction. BY E. W. ALEXANDER. In your footnote following my article inthe Feb. 15th of Gleanings on Bee-keeping as a Business, you think some ofyour subscribers may take issue with mystatement as to the net profit in the work—namely, $ per colony, spring count, clearof all expenses. Well, as to that I am suiea very large per cent will question that state-ment, and I will admit that perhaps not tenper cent of the honey-producers of the Unit-ed States are making that amount per colo-ny. I will also admit that, during the thirtyyears of my comb-honey experience, I didnot make $ per colony clear of expensesfrom the many colonies I had then. Neitherdid I make $ per colony clear of expensesin producing extracted honey during the firstseveral years I was engaged in that during the last few years there havebeen great changes made in producing hon-ey. First, our bees are
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