. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. anuarv, ig American Hee Journal 2. There are two bee-keepers within about 8 miles of my place who have several colonies in box-hives which they want to sell. What would be a fair price for me to pay per col- ony for them f 3. In transferring would it be all right to let each colony swarm once, remove the old hive from the old stand and let it go until the honey-flow starts, then place it beside the new hive on the old stand with a bee-escape on its entrance, and thus run the bees from the old hive into the new one? 4. My apiary will be on the south si
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. anuarv, ig American Hee Journal 2. There are two bee-keepers within about 8 miles of my place who have several colonies in box-hives which they want to sell. What would be a fair price for me to pay per col- ony for them f 3. In transferring would it be all right to let each colony swarm once, remove the old hive from the old stand and let it go until the honey-flow starts, then place it beside the new hive on the old stand with a bee-escape on its entrance, and thus run the bees from the old hive into the new one? 4. My apiary will be on the south side of a larRe hill. I expect to run for comb honey. If the colonics arc left without shade would the crop of honey be likely to be shorter than it would be if shade were provided? 5. The queen in one colony this season slacked up on egg-laying in July. Previous to this she did very well, having filled 14 Dan- zenbaker frames in 21 days. About the first of August she commenced laying again as be- fore. There was some honey in both brood- chamber and super. Why did she slow up on egg-laying? If a detriment can such con- duct be prevented? District of Columbia. Answers.—i. That's a very hard question, Let us suppose that the principal honey-plant in the case is heartsease—a very supposable thing. It will especially flourish in a wet sea- son, although it may do more or less every year. The principal matter of uncertainty in the case, however, is the amount of it. It may be so little in amount that those 6 colo- nies were able to take care of all the blos- soms in reach, and if you had had 7 colonies your surplus would have been reduced. That, however, is not likely to be the case, and as guessing is the only thing that can be done, my guess is that 50 colonies will give you more surplus than a smaller number, and pos- sibly 75 to 100. 2. That's one of the things that depends upon "locality," and you can find out only by in- quiring what prices have been customary. Po
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