. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 149 President—We have quite a number of other ladies pres- ent. Let us hear from them. Mrs. Poindexter—I commenced with 11 colonies, and in- creased and added till I had 200. These 200 we had in three locations in DeWitt country, 12 or 15 miles apart. At my home yard I had 80 colonies. At the time we had 200, we had 12,000 pounds of comb honey, besides what extracted was taken. Mrs. Stow—I had 37 colonies iu the spring of 1895, and increased them to 60. I now have 55; 5 were destroyed by the mice. My crop was 1,200 poun
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 149 President—We have quite a number of other ladies pres- ent. Let us hear from them. Mrs. Poindexter—I commenced with 11 colonies, and in- creased and added till I had 200. These 200 we had in three locations in DeWitt country, 12 or 15 miles apart. At my home yard I had 80 colonies. At the time we had 200, we had 12,000 pounds of comb honey, besides what extracted was taken. Mrs. Stow—I had 37 colonies iu the spring of 1895, and increased them to 60. I now have 55; 5 were destroyed by the mice. My crop was 1,200 pounds. MICE DESTROYING COLONIES. Question.—"What should be done to prevent mice from destroying colonies ?" Mr. Draper—Contract the entrances so the mice cannot get in. President—I use wire-cloth three meshes to the inch, tacked over an entrance that is two inches deep, as long as the entrance of the hive is wide. STORING HONEY AND NUMBER OF BROOD-FRAMES. Question.—" Will bees store as much honey when there are 16 frames in the brood-nest as when there are only S ?" Mr. Walker—A friend of mine, Mr. N. Doane, of Breeken- ridge, Mich., tried the 16's and 8's. He said the 16's were ahead. Mr. Ellis--Bee-trees, you know, have large brood-capaci- ties, and they generally contain considerable honey. Mr. Draper—The Dadants have been preaching large hives for years. I use them myself, and prefer them. I see that Mr. Root has been testing larger hives, and I should like to have him tell what he knows about them. Mr. Root—I have reported in Gleanings from time to time my experiments in testing S-frame and 16-frame colonies at our out-yard. Colonies in the latter gave us more honey by considerable ; in fact, they were the only ones last season that seemed to get any honey at all; and, more than that, they do not offer to swarm. While the 8-framers did little or nothing toward getting honey, they gave us no little annoyance swarming out. There may be lo
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