. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 823 a, Will it pay? b, If so, should it be done before or after feediuK ? o, Will it be necessary to move winter-cases and all ? 5. How can I use a Boardmao feeder while the bees are still packt in chaff? 6. Would you advise starving bees upon warm days to give them a flight ? Michigan. Answers.—1. Unless there is danger of starvation, it is not necessary to remove them till weather has fairly warmed up and bees are at work on fruit-bloom, if indeed there is need of it before time for putting on supers. 2. The favorite
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 823 a, Will it pay? b, If so, should it be done before or after feediuK ? o, Will it be necessary to move winter-cases and all ? 5. How can I use a Boardmao feeder while the bees are still packt in chaff? 6. Would you advise starving bees upon warm days to give them a flight ? Michigan. Answers.—1. Unless there is danger of starvation, it is not necessary to remove them till weather has fairly warmed up and bees are at work on fruit-bloom, if indeed there is need of it before time for putting on supers. 2. The favorite time is during fruit-blo'om. 3. Try not more than two or three before fruit-bloom, some of them in the gap between fruit-bloom and clover, and leave the rest without feeding. If you hurt instead of help those fed before fruit-bloom, it won't matter much, because the number is small. By feeding part and leaving part with- out feeding after fruit-bloom, you will be able to judge some- what whether it is wise for you to practice stimulative feeding in the future. For it is well to remember that it is not agreed that stimulative feeding is a universally good thing. 4. a. It seems that it ought to pay big. b. Just in time to catch the first clover, c. No. 5. Probably you can't very conveniently. 6. Some pooh-pooh the idea, but on a day when other col- onies were having a good flight, if X saw one not flying, I'd kick it. DUtauce Bees kept from a Street- Colonies. -Qiieenless 1. Is there any law in the city of Chicago, as to how far an apiary has to be located from a highway or street, whether it must be fenced in, 2. At what time in thespring do queens commence to lay, if the colony be in good condition ? 3. What will be the result of a colony that loses its queen during the winter months ? 4. What is to be done with such a queenless colony in spring ? Illinois. Answers.—1. I don't know, but I doubt there being any specific law on the subject. Any Chicago lawyer can tell y
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