. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 783. strong Colonics for Coinb Honey or for Extracted 2 Query 876.—If you wore going to run one- half: of you apiary for extracted honey, would you take the strongest colonies for comb or for extracted honey ?—Georgia. Comb.—C. C. Miller. For comb honey.—M. Mahin. For extracted honey.—G. M. Doolit- TLE. The strongest for comb honey.—R. L. Taylor. The strongest for comb honey.—Mrs. L. Harrison. I would take the strongest for comb honey.—E. France. I would take the strongest colonies for comb honey.—J. P. H. Brown. I would take the
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 783. strong Colonics for Coinb Honey or for Extracted 2 Query 876.—If you wore going to run one- half: of you apiary for extracted honey, would you take the strongest colonies for comb or for extracted honey ?—Georgia. Comb.—C. C. Miller. For comb honey.—M. Mahin. For extracted honey.—G. M. Doolit- TLE. The strongest for comb honey.—R. L. Taylor. The strongest for comb honey.—Mrs. L. Harrison. I would take the strongest for comb honey.—E. France. I would take the strongest colonies for comb honey.—J. P. H. Brown. I would take the strong colonies for comb honey.—J. H. Larrabee. Better make the two divisions equal as to strength.—P. H. Elwood. "I ; It must depend upon the demands of our customers.—Will M. Barnum. It is of no importance. The strong colonies will yield the most surplus of either grade.—Dadant & Son. Usually the strongest, though not necessarily, as the swarming tendency complicates matters.—A. J. Cook. I would take the strongest colonies for the honey that had the best demand in my home market.—J as. A. Stone. Each apiarist should settle this mat- ter to his own satisfaction. I would take the strongest ones for extracting. —J. M. Hambaugh. Only strong colonies produce flrst-class comb honey. Neither will it pay to ex- tract from anything but strong colonies. —Emerson T. Abbott. That would depend upon the charac- ter of the honey-flow. Usually I would use the strongest colonies for comb A. Green. For comb honey, as you may extract from a one-frame nucleus, but it takes strong colonies to do much at storing section honey.—Mrs. Jennie Atchley. I should run all the strong colonies for comb honey. Weak colonies will often store considerable honey in comb provided for them, that would do noth- ing at all in sections.—C. H. Dibbern. I would run the strongest for extracted, especially when the season was likely to be a short
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