. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. In regard to requeening, I have left the bees to attend to this duty. I had one queen to do good work for three seasons. The fourth season the bees superseded her. As far as my observations have enabled me to judge, the bees are not likely to su- persede a queen unless she shows un- mistakable evidence that she is fall- ing short in keeping up the ordinary strength of the colony. I have been a patron of the Ameri- can Bee Journal ever since its first copy was published, and have kept bees during all these years, except the f
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. In regard to requeening, I have left the bees to attend to this duty. I had one queen to do good work for three seasons. The fourth season the bees superseded her. As far as my observations have enabled me to judge, the bees are not likely to su- persede a queen unless she shows un- mistakable evidence that she is fall- ing short in keeping up the ordinary strength of the colony. I have been a patron of the Ameri- can Bee Journal ever since its first copy was published, and have kept bees during all these years, except the first ten years after locating in Kansas. The past season, with hives of the capacity I have mentioned, I took, with an extractor, from nine colonies of bees and their increase, 1,250 pounds of fine alfalfa honey and sold nearly all of it at 25 cents per pound. Chase, Kans. (Dr. Bohrer is 86 years old, just a little younger than Dr. Miller, and about as vigorous.—Editor.) Apiary of O. A. Keene, Secretary of the Kansas Association. are protracted, and you know bees go into winter at the lower and front part of the hive. In case they con- sume all the honey in the combs oc- cupied, back to the rear end of the hive, and the combs on either side of the cluster of bees are covered with frost, they cannot reach it and will perish of starvation. With the frames as I use them," said he, "there is more honey above and to the rear of the ; His logic could not be controverted successfully. I at once concluded to use his frames more extensively than I had up to that time. But before I did so I determined to move from where I then resided to central Kan- sas, which I found not adapted to beekeeping, as there were no honey- yielding plants in this part of the State. I therefore kept no bees until fruit trees began to bear and alfalfa had been introduced. Then I began again keeping bees and have adopted the Jumbo hive body as a broodnest. Bees winter quite well in it.
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