. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Edmund Wliittlesey, Pecatonica, III.—See page 300. stories from the first with our best colonies, and very often add a third before the crop is over. Much depends upon the season and the condition of the bees at the opening of the crop. We usually wait until the entire crop is harvested before beginning extracting ; but, in a few very bright seasons, we were compelled to extract, because the bees were out of room, and we had no more supers to give them. Such seasons may be marked in red letters on a bee-keeper's diary. Such were, with us, the years 18
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Edmund Wliittlesey, Pecatonica, III.—See page 300. stories from the first with our best colonies, and very often add a third before the crop is over. Much depends upon the season and the condition of the bees at the opening of the crop. We usually wait until the entire crop is harvested before beginning extracting ; but, in a few very bright seasons, we were compelled to extract, because the bees were out of room, and we had no more supers to give them. Such seasons may be marked in red letters on a bee-keeper's diary. Such were, with us, the years 1883 and 1884. In 1884, we extracted the honey, in one apiary, five different times, and made an average of nearly 150 pounds per colony. The general aver- age, however, one year with another, does not exceed 50. The Tongue of the Honey-Bce—Magnified. A, Tongue extended. B, Llprula. sheath extended. 0, Cross see. Llgula. pounds per colony, and this is, after all, very satisfactory, even with honey at 6 cents per pound. We find that, in some seasons, the colonies make a very good average of crop ; but few supers remaining empty, while, in other seasons, the yield is very unequal; some colo- nies giving two and even three supers full of honey, while some others may not fill a half super. When such is the case, we find it profitable to equalize the crop by adding some full combs to the weaker colonies, and exchanging the supers with those that have all their combs filled. During a good honey- flow, it is not at all necessary to shake the bees out. We transfer bees and all, and find that everything goes on peace- ably. When there is plenty of honey there is neither robbing nor fighting. The result of this equalizing is that there is no time lost when the extracting comes, as all the combs are full, and there is no handling of empty Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and a
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