. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 394- AMERICAN BEE answered by Marengo, Idl. In this department will be answered those questions needing immediate attention, and such as are not of sufficient special interest to require replies from the'JO or more apiarists who help to malie "Queries and Replies" so interesting on another page. In the main, it will contain questions and answers upon mat- ters that particularly interest beginners.—Ed. Give Them Bee-Bread and All. As we had lately unusually warm weath- er, I examined my bees on the summer stands. I found one colony
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 394- AMERICAN BEE answered by Marengo, Idl. In this department will be answered those questions needing immediate attention, and such as are not of sufficient special interest to require replies from the'JO or more apiarists who help to malie "Queries and Replies" so interesting on another page. In the main, it will contain questions and answers upon mat- ters that particularly interest beginners.—Ed. Give Them Bee-Bread and All. As we had lately unusually warm weath- er, I examined my bees on the summer stands. I found one colony with the queen and bees all dead—killed, I suppose, by the severe and long spell of cold we had in De- cember. Strange to say, there is plenty of sealed honey in each comb, within easy reach of the bees, and plenty of bee-bread also. Now with regard to this last (pollen), I wish to know whether it is good, or even neces- sary to scrape it off before giving the combs to another colony in April. H. D. Montreal, Canada. Answer.—Give the bees bee-bread and all. If it's in nice, clean shape it may be worth to them as much as an equal weight of honey. Even if not in the best shape, the bees are good at cleaning up. Honey Crop of the United States, If possible, please publish the honey crop in the United States for , and each year up to this. In 1890 the Bee Journal said " about one-fourth of a ; What year was it a full crop? Is it better in Canada of late years (five years) than in the United States? What localities fail most? Orangeville, O. Peter Moxer. Answer.—Friend M., did you ask such questions just on purpose to get me to say I don't know? I've no idea that any one can give an entirely reliable answer to a single one of them. The attempt was made one year by bee-keepers themselves to take a census of the crop, but it didn't amount to much. The federal government has also made some kind of a census at different times, and perhaps some of the States,
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