. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Octo'ier. loil. American Vee Journal 311 trance full-depth in summer. The bees just spread out over that bic bottom in hot weather—no hanging around outside tiie hive. There has been no swarmning from them j-ef. neither has there been any pre- ventive measure taken of any kind so far. and one has been in use over 5 years, a second a years, and 30 are in use now. The idea was to give the bees a "savings bank" to draw on if occasion called. If the hives are entirely empty, it might not give surplus in the supers, but if all combs not used for
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Octo'ier. loil. American Vee Journal 311 trance full-depth in summer. The bees just spread out over that bic bottom in hot weather—no hanging around outside tiie hive. There has been no swarmning from them j-ef. neither has there been any pre- ventive measure taken of any kind so far. and one has been in use over 5 years, a second a years, and 30 are in use now. The idea was to give the bees a "savings bank" to draw on if occasion called. If the hives are entirely empty, it might not give surplus in the supers, but if all combs not used for brood are filled with honey, what then ? Must not the surplus come up in the supers, or the bees swarm ? or would they become idle and loaf in a honey-flow ? I doubt it. Some doubt. I know, for I have taken 150 sections of honey from a single colony, and my locality is not by any means a good one. Land is cultivated closely; farms are small; no large pastures. Buck- wheat is all sown about the same time, and never over 50 acres within reach, and no basswood. Thus you see a bee-keeper here must have his dish right side up in time. It's very easy to get big crops in bis-bloom territory, but it's another proposition to get it in a slim one. Now just stick a pin right here, and you dare tell who told you. tool Large bees, or small bees, is a question of feed, not ciils. Last year, and the year be- fore, my small hives during the severe drouth, when bees, roamed the fields and sucked even theiuices of wild carrots to live, some colonies threw off bees of half sizes- real dwarfs they were, and soon died off; and at other times, with abundance of honey coming in. young queens were unusually large—all reared from the same cells. If food is abundant they will rear large bees, even if their heads must stick out of the cells! You cant grow large, slick Clydes- dale horses in a goat pasture, but you can grow slick goats in a good Clydesdale pas- ture. And that's all there is in this Qu
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