. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1913. American Vee Jonrnal. The Season of 1912 In order to give a true picture, we must EC baclt to the fall of iqii. which was about the most discouraging fall I ever saw as far as bee-keeping is concerned We had noth- ing but rain and cola weather all through August. September, and part of October, and by the middle of November consider- able snow which stayed until spring, conse- quently the Queens stopped laying in Sep- tember. This, coupled with the fact that during August considerable honey-dew was gathered, and that for weeks the ther- mo
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1913. American Vee Jonrnal. The Season of 1912 In order to give a true picture, we must EC baclt to the fall of iqii. which was about the most discouraging fall I ever saw as far as bee-keeping is concerned We had noth- ing but rain and cola weather all through August. September, and part of October, and by the middle of November consider- able snow which stayed until spring, conse- quently the Queens stopped laying in Sep- tember. This, coupled with the fact that during August considerable honey-dew was gathered, and that for weeks the ther- mometer never went higher than 30 degrees above zero, is it any wonder that the ma- jority of our bees died ? Had we bee-keepers been smart enough to take away all the honey and feed sugar syrup, we could have saved our bees, but as the honey-dew was not of a very dark color, aud did not taste bad. no one had any idea it would be so detrimental to the bees. The majority of bee-keepers lost neat ly all their bees, many of them every colony they had. When my 46 colonies were taken out of the cellar (March 21) they were all alive but one. but on examining them the next day. I knew that half of them would not pull through. In many hives I found but a small handful of bees and right here let me say that if we bee-keepers of the North could have sent to the South for bees by the pound, we could have saved most of those colonies). The hives were spotted so that not even the numbers could be read, and the odor was fearful. By uniting the number of my colonies was reduced to 26. They were then well pro- tected with tar paper, and as we had very nice weather for about two weeks. I fed thin sugar syrup, and also pollen, in a warm, sheltered place. The pollen was corn meal. oat meal, rye and graham meal mixed. If there had been a natural flow those bees could not have worked better. The queens started to lay at once, and though the spring was cold and backward, they kept laying more or less
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