. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May 28, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 347 ceases. If you have only^a week to build up, you can hardly but you might la three. •J. Yes. 3. I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but if you only a short time to work between harvests, then act accordinfrly you have a lonp enough time, you can make a new colony from old one. If there isn't time enontrh for that, then draw only eni brood to make one new colony out of each two old ones. If the is too short for that, then draw only one or two combs of brood bees from each old one, and make a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May 28, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 347 ceases. If you have only^a week to build up, you can hardly but you might la three. •J. Yes. 3. I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but if you only a short time to work between harvests, then act accordinfrly you have a lonp enough time, you can make a new colony from old one. If there isn't time enontrh for that, then draw only eni brood to make one new colony out of each two old ones. If the is too short for that, then draw only one or two combs of brood bees from each old one, and make a new one out of several old on liave . If i-ach High time and Size of Hive—Shade—Best Bees. 1. In a country where the seasons are wet and dry—very wet in winter and very dry in summer—and where the temperature never goes below 27 above zero, and rarely higher than 95 in the shade in the summer, where sunstrokes are unknown, would you recommend deep, shallow, or medium hives? i. Considering the above climatic conditions, would you recom- mend that a roof be placed over the hives on the grdund for shelter* 3. Keeping our climate in mind, which strain of bees would you recommend—golden, red clover, leather-color, or Carniolan ? I want the gentlest and best workers. California. Answers.—1. For extracted honey, perhaps little choice; but for comb the medium or shallow would be better. •-'. Hardly, except for sake of sheltering the bee-keeper from the sun while at work at the hives; and for that purpose a covering of boughs or vines would be sufficient. 3. It isn't so much a difference between golden, red-clover, etc., as it is to have the best of either one that you do have. The best of any one of them is better than the poorest of any other kind. Possi- bly you might find among the leather-colored something that would suit you as well as any, and there is nothing to binder any one of the other three kinds from being red-clover bees. It will be no harm for you to try
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