. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The " Old Reliable " as seen through New and Unreliable Glasses, By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. Swarming in France and Here. The carefully observed and collated facts about swarming which Adrian Getaz copies from the French ought to be of decided interest. Different flavor, for one thing, from what we get this side. Several years and a number of apiaries drawn on. When our folks can get around to do the like, it will be in order to note how things in France differ from things in our country. Meantime we can make luminous guesse
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The " Old Reliable " as seen through New and Unreliable Glasses, By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. Swarming in France and Here. The carefully observed and collated facts about swarming which Adrian Getaz copies from the French ought to be of decided interest. Different flavor, for one thing, from what we get this side. Several years and a number of apiaries drawn on. When our folks can get around to do the like, it will be in order to note how things in France differ from things in our country. Meantime we can make luminous guesses about our conditions and com- pare conjecture with fact. For part of the work I have records which will parallel theirs—if it were not so great a task to collate them. Have just run over my first 3 years as to the dates of swarms. Both earlier and later than theirs, and, of course, more days in the swarming period. Their extremes are from May 17 to July 4, or 49 days for the swarming period. My extremes (taking in only 1880, 1881 and 1882) are from May 12 to Sept. S, or 117 days— much more than twice as long, not to mention their average duration of only 24 days. My commencement for 1881 was not normal, as I was dividing, for needed increase, everything I thought would bear dividing. But after a bit the bees struck in and would swarm some notwithstanding the dividing. Collating 1880 and 1882 together, I had 3 swarms in May, 120 in June, 126 in July, 38 in August, and 1 in Septem- ber. Total, 288. Number of colonies was 56 the former year and 68 the lat- ter. Some of my later years have been much less swarmy than these. Col- lating the whole great mass would re- duce the proportion of August swarms. Also, if a number of other apiaries were collated with mine, the joint re- sult would be less swarms per hundred colonies, I take it. Only for the year 1900 and since have I marked down the time of day. Was moved thereto by what seemed to me to be the absurdity of things I saw
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