. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. isy't THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 789 -^^-^^^. SklelE Does It Pay to Move Bees to Other Fields In the Storing Season ? BV A. F. BROWN. On page 611, W. T. Richardson puts this question, and answers it by Riving his experience in moving bees to the bean-fields of California. Having only recently given an article touching on items connected with migratory bee-keeping, I will add something more to the subject by giving here some of the successes, as well as failures, I have encountered in moving bees to catch a honey-flow. Early in February, 1894, I moved a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. isy't THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 789 -^^-^^^. SklelE Does It Pay to Move Bees to Other Fields In the Storing Season ? BV A. F. BROWN. On page 611, W. T. Richardson puts this question, and answers it by Riving his experience in moving bees to the bean-fields of California. Having only recently given an article touching on items connected with migratory bee-keeping, I will add something more to the subject by giving here some of the successes, as well as failures, I have encountered in moving bees to catch a honey-flow. Early in February, 1894, I moved about 40 colonies five or six miles, to the orange-bloom, which was good, and I secured about SO pounds surplus per colony, as well as doub- ling my number of colonies. The following June the colonies were packt and shipt some miles to the mangrove on the coast. They were first hauled three miles to the railroad, loaded into a car, and taken 40 miles, then loaded on a boat and taken 12 miles down the river, and set out on the bank ; within 24 hours they were bringing in new honey freely. The flow lasted about 40 days. The considered a short crop, I secured some 7,000 or 8,000 pounds, and I increast the col- onies to 150. They were packt the last of August, and moved 200 miles down the coast on two boats; in this move two or three colonies were lost by lack of ventilation. The fall bloom proved a failure, still the colonies did well in breeding up, gaining about 33 per cent, increase. In the February following they were packt again, and all loaded (n)w numbering about 200) on one large sail-boat to be moved 150 miles to the orange grove on the north end of the Indian river. This proved a disastrous trip. I counted upon three or four days to go the 150 miles (having open water two to four or six miles wide the whole length of the river), but encountered a " northener "—in other words, heavy wind and stormy weather—and were driven ashore, the bees beingSoaded in t
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