. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. X Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. AUGUST, 1900 No. 8 SPRING LOSSES. This is the Season to Guard Against Their Occurrence. BY S. M. KEELBR. MR. M. F. REEVE, under hoading "Cold Weather Prevents Brood- rearing," page 104, June num- ber American Bee-keeper, says "Com- plaints were made at the Philadelphia Bee-keepers' Convention that the ex- tremes of weather and backward spring prevented brood-rearing to replace the natural losses of the old ;' Now I contend that the tirst and greatest cause of all this
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. X Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. AUGUST, 1900 No. 8 SPRING LOSSES. This is the Season to Guard Against Their Occurrence. BY S. M. KEELBR. MR. M. F. REEVE, under hoading "Cold Weather Prevents Brood- rearing," page 104, June num- ber American Bee-keeper, says "Com- plaints were made at the Philadelphia Bee-keepers' Convention that the ex- tremes of weather and backward spring prevented brood-rearing to replace the natural losses of the old ;' Now I contend that the tirst and greatest cause of all this set-back was lack of the production of young bees through the last half of July and Au- gust, 1899. I think it could not be con- sidered a hard winter for bees, and at- tribute the great loss to the severe drouth all of last summer. After the frost went out of the ground in the spring there was not rain enough in this section to wet the ground deep enough to plow for corn through the whole season. The ground was so dry and hard that much plowing for buckwheat as well as other crops had to be aban- doned. Bees suffered loss the same as everything else. In many apiaries the bees did not get honey enough to winter. The old bees keep dying ofT the year around and in a good season they will keep up the supply of young bees and more; but last summer, with almost no honey coming in, they nearly stopped brood-rearing. As far as they go the old bees will help to keep the brood- nest warm through the winter months. That winters the swarm. But to spring them we need a large force of young bees that were raised last July and August to go into winter quarters. Feed enough in July and August, if necessary, to keep up brood-rearing. What say you all ? Chenango Bridge, , June 30,1900. RE-QUEENING. Details of a Cheap and Convenient Method. BY P. GREIXER. MANY of us bee-keepers, I believe, do not fully realize the import- ance of having young queens in our hives, or else more cjf an effort
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