. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 13 proper strength for most successful wintering. Our experience with one-pound packages is not so extensive, as it was assumed that they are not quite populous enough to build up in the cold spring, such as we have here in Minnesota. The one-pound packages were re- ceived on the following dates : April 20, May 15 and June 15. The follow- ing results were achieved in the way of surplus extracted honey: Date Received. Surplus Honey. April 20 I 25 pounds May 15 0 pounds June 15 0 pounds The packages received May 15, al- though
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 13 proper strength for most successful wintering. Our experience with one-pound packages is not so extensive, as it was assumed that they are not quite populous enough to build up in the cold spring, such as we have here in Minnesota. The one-pound packages were re- ceived on the following dates : April 20, May 15 and June 15. The follow- ing results were achieved in the way of surplus extracted honey: Date Received. Surplus Honey. April 20 I 25 pounds May 15 0 pounds June 15 0 pounds The packages received May 15, al- though yielding no surplus, gathered enough to winter on. Packages re- ceived June 15, in addition to gather- ing no surplus were supplied with brood from other colonies after the honey flow in order to build them up properly. In other words, they were not worth very much more than the queens that came with them. Nu- clei made up of two frames of brood with adhering bees about June 10 and supplied with a virgin queen reared in our own apiary, gave better results than one-pound packages re- ceived at about this date. The reader must not be misled and be made to believe that every season would give the same results. As stated heretofore, these results were obtained in 1917. The spring was ab- normal in every way and the weather cold up to July 1, so much so that corn at this date was no farther ad- vanced than it is June 15 in normal years, and clover in almost like pro- portion. So from the experience of the past season it is safe to con- clude that the two-pound package is a better proposition than the one- pound. At least from a dollars and cents standpoint this is true, and when the northern beekeeper cannot realize a fair margin of profit on the venture, he is not apt to be a sup- porter of the package business in the future, which in turn means a lessen- ing of orders received by the pack- age men of the south. On the aver- age, the two-pound package costs one dollar more than the
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