. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1915. American Hee Journal 13 t is foulbrood 1 can't find any trace of it. The bees are just naturally lazy ex- cept when they want to sting. Another peculiar thing is they didn't swarm a single time last spring; something I had never known them to neglect. They were still in the box-hives. "If you can give me any information or tell me what to do for the above it will certainly be appreciated. Also tell rne what you think of the Ocklocknee river for bees, from the Georgia and Florida line down for a space of 30 or 40 ; J. T.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1915. American Hee Journal 13 t is foulbrood 1 can't find any trace of it. The bees are just naturally lazy ex- cept when they want to sting. Another peculiar thing is they didn't swarm a single time last spring; something I had never known them to neglect. They were still in the box-hives. "If you can give me any information or tell me what to do for the above it will certainly be appreciated. Also tell rne what you think of the Ocklocknee river for bees, from the Georgia and Florida line down for a space of 30 or 40 ; J. T. DeLonh. Hinson, Fla. I don't think you have any serious disease in your apiary, but a bad case of dwindling, partly from natural cause and partly from transferring. If the honey flow is postponed for some reason the bees dwindle. As soon as you find they are running short of stores you should feed. Keep plenty of stores in the hives and all colonies headed with good queens. [The last recommendation is impor- tant. Those colonies may be queen- less.—Editor.] No Honey "I have made a complete failure with honey production. I ordered some 10- frarae hives for chunk honey. I put them up plain without any comb start- ers. They work all right in the bot- tom story, but will not work at all in the super. It takes them two seasons or more to fill the bottom story with honey, so you see I have not gotten any ; H. L. Eason. keysville, Ga. Your case is similar to many others, not because there has been no honey to gather, but because the hives were not properly supplied. I am sure if you had used plenty of foundation both in the supers and bodies you would have had better success. If instructions are not properly carried out with the mod- ern hives, better not buy them, as it is tying up money. Then, too, your 10- frame hives are too large for this sec- tion. You could have gotten better results with a smaller or 8-frame hive, but as you have started with the In- frame hi
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