. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE mrmmmicKn ibeh^ jouRNffiL. 5^21 •-'- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ * ^" '^ * that vegetation was pushed rightalong; thus the main flow was soon ovei'. But I do not wisli to lay all the blame to the bad weather in June. One-third of my bees had plenty of honey to keep up rapid brood-rearing from spring until now, and these same colonies produced, this season, an average of -40 pounds of comb honej', and of extracted Gli pounds. Th# other two-thirds of my colonies, which were in a starving condition in the latter half of May, during which time they ceased to r
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE mrmmmicKn ibeh^ jouRNffiL. 5^21 •-'- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ * ^" '^ * that vegetation was pushed rightalong; thus the main flow was soon ovei'. But I do not wisli to lay all the blame to the bad weather in June. One-third of my bees had plenty of honey to keep up rapid brood-rearing from spring until now, and these same colonies produced, this season, an average of -40 pounds of comb honej', and of extracted Gli pounds. Th# other two-thirds of my colonies, which were in a starving condition in the latter half of May, during which time they ceased to rear much brood, thus reducing the colonies in numbers, rather than increasing the same—this indeed is half the cause of the failure, for the latter did not, on an average, store 10 pounds of surplus honey from clover. Is it not plain enough to see, that had I fed the last colonies, and kept up brood-rearing, I might have had a fair crop of clover honey, de- spite the poor season ? Ten pounds of sugar per colony would have done the work, and if it should have made them as strong as the former, I would have 20 pounds of honey, clear, for the labor of feeding, which, in an apiary of 100 colonies, would have added $134 to the income fi'om the bees ; that is, not counting one's time or sections to hold the honey. This shows the great necessity of having rousing colo- nies for the honej' harvest. Welton, Iowa, June 14, 1890. REVERSING. Tlie Objects of Reversing the Brood-Combs Explained. Read at the Ohio State Convention BY CHALON FOWLS. My object in reversing the brood- combs, is to induce the bees to enter the sections more promptly, to prevent swarming by removing one of the causes of swarming, and to get the winter stores in part of the combs, in- stead of a little in all and not much in any. Some five or six years ago, in one of his articles, Mr. G. M. Doolittle made this assertion : "The greatest secret of getting comb honey is to get the sec- tions just as near to the
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