. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 870 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL^. Colonies for Comb. or Extracted Honey—Sting-Trowel Tlieory. Written Jor the American Bee Journal BY DR. C. C. MILLEK. On page 110, to the question how- many colonies run for comb honey- should be kept on a range which sup- ports 75 for extracted honey, there is a variety of answers, ranging from the same number to double the number. I suspect the reasoning on one hand was something like this ; Only half as much comb honey can be harvested by each colony as extracted ; consequently there must be twice as many colonies to gath
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 870 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL^. Colonies for Comb. or Extracted Honey—Sting-Trowel Tlieory. Written Jor the American Bee Journal BY DR. C. C. MILLEK. On page 110, to the question how- many colonies run for comb honey- should be kept on a range which sup- ports 75 for extracted honey, there is a variety of answers, ranging from the same number to double the number. I suspect the reasoning on one hand was something like this ; Only half as much comb honey can be harvested by each colony as extracted ; consequently there must be twice as many colonies to gather it, forgetting that a good part of the honey must be counted to make wax %nd to feed bees. On the other hand, those who say there is no difference, reason that if 75 colonies clean the field, it doesn't make any difference what they do with the honey, whether they store it all as ex- tracted honey, or make part of it into wax. I suspect those who took medium ground were more nearly right. For the sake of illustration, suppose a single colony cleans the field, working for ex- tracted honey, thefe being 40,000 bees in the colony, and 20,000 of the 40,- 000 working in the field. Suppose they store 80 pounds when working for ex- tracted, and 40 when working for comb. If it takes 60 pounds to support the col- ony, then when working for comb honey, they must have a field that affords 100 pounds, and when working for extracted honey a field that affords 140 pounds. So it will not do to say that the same number will work the same field in each case, unless you say that they will store an equal amount of extracted or comb. Possibly some may have believed this, in which case their answer was correct according to that belief. THE STING-TROWEL THEORY. Here's 3,n item clipped from the Chi- cago News Becord of Jan. 26, 1893, and credited to the Baltimore News : " Function of a Bee's Sting.—It will be a surprise to many to learn that, after all, the most important function of the
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