. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 4, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 431 makes .3951 ounce of honey that each drone costs. Multiply this by 576, and you have ounces, or pounds of honey that it has cost to rear and support the drones from that piece of comb the size of a pound section. •? But," you say. " I don't stand all that expense, for I slice off the heads of the sealed brood every time I go over them, so I stand only the trifle that it costs to rear ; Suppose we figure on that. Multiply .0141 by 576, and you have ounces of honey that
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 4, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 431 makes .3951 ounce of honey that each drone costs. Multiply this by 576, and you have ounces, or pounds of honey that it has cost to rear and support the drones from that piece of comb the size of a pound section. •? But," you say. " I don't stand all that expense, for I slice off the heads of the sealed brood every time I go over them, so I stand only the trifle that it costs to rear ; Suppose we figure on that. Multiply .0141 by 576, and you have ounces of honey that each slicing has cost you. Remember that this cost has occurred before the cells are sealed; and as fast as you slice off the heads of the brood a fresh lot will be started so long' as there is a moderate degree of storing. Sup- pose you begin slicing June 1, and slice every two weeks, making the last slicing July 13. That will make four times, costing you a trifle more than two pounds. Don't you be- lieve you could go over 25 colonies in a day, cutting out the drone-comb and putting patches of worker-comb in place thereof J That would give you a payment of 50 pounds of honey for the day's work, to say nothing of the saving in future years. <^Ht out the ilroiie-comb.—Gleanings in Bee-Culture. A New Bee-Keeping EI Dorado. It is in Arkansas, and L. E. Kerr .says in the American Bee-Keeper; The flow begins here the first of April and continues till November. It is not spasmodic, but comes in a slow, steady stream for about seven months, enabling a wide-awake bee- keeper to secure from 100 to 800 pounds of comb , of first-class quality, as an aver- age yield per colony. With a honey-fiow lasting seven months many would naturally suppose that the mat- ter of keeping the colonies in shape to do the best work would be no little item; but really all we have to do is to keep good (|ueens and let them aloue, and they remain strong them- selves, with no swarming except during
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