. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 792 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Nov. 16,190S Those which I put into No. 3 filled their 2 supers, and. like the others, are now strong in bees and honey. It looked to me as if there were 2 queens in hive No. 2 dur- ing those 20 days. Anyway, they stored nearly 150 pounds of section honey, besides putting enough in the brood chamber for winter. I started in the spring with 30 colonies, and increased to SO. The honey season was short, but very brisk, and my har- vest amounts to just about 71 pounds to the colony, spring count. I have never followed Dr. Mill
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 792 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Nov. 16,190S Those which I put into No. 3 filled their 2 supers, and. like the others, are now strong in bees and honey. It looked to me as if there were 2 queens in hive No. 2 dur- ing those 20 days. Anyway, they stored nearly 150 pounds of section honey, besides putting enough in the brood chamber for winter. I started in the spring with 30 colonies, and increased to SO. The honey season was short, but very brisk, and my har- vest amounts to just about 71 pounds to the colony, spring count. I have never followed Dr. Miller's plan of using bottom starters, but all my sections during the main honey-flow were filled clear to the bottpm with barely a small bee-space at the corners. A few sections, near the end of the season, were capped before reaching the bottom. Perhaps with bottom starters these would have been filled also, but I have my doubts. I am not in favor of filling a lot of supers beforehand in anticipation of a big honey crop, with a liability of having a lot left over unused. My plan is this: I prepare enough be- forehand to go around, one super for each colony ; then, when the swarming season approaches I go into the shop and begin work folding sections, putting in starters and filling supers, and I am right there ready to attend to every swarm that issues. So I have something to keep me busy between times, and do not have to sit around doing nothing, waiting for the bees to swarm. Even with this method, the sudden closing of the honey-flow the past season found me with about SO supers on the hives with little or nothing in them. Capturing swarms after they have clustered has been rather a serious matter with me on account of so many tall trees near my apiary. My swarm-catcher is a light frame one foot square, and the same in depth, lined with cloth. This I fasten to the end of a pole, and to lower a large swarm safely to the ground on the end of an 18-foot pole is rather a tough pr
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