. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1909. American liee Journal strung out in a long string, and it took al! of 15 minutes until the tail-end had arrived at the decoy hive. This swarm proved to be vifithout a queen. My bees had good flights on 7 days in honey, and 320 pounds in one-pound sec- tions, so I have reason to be well sat- isfied. The other photograph shows a swarm of bees that I found in the limbs of a. Apiary of Jacob Wagner, E. Aman.\, Iowa. November and 8 days in December. On December 6 and 7 we had zero weather. On December 29 I renewed the winter- packing over t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1909. American liee Journal strung out in a long string, and it took al! of 15 minutes until the tail-end had arrived at the decoy hive. This swarm proved to be vifithout a queen. My bees had good flights on 7 days in honey, and 320 pounds in one-pound sec- tions, so I have reason to be well sat- isfied. The other photograph shows a swarm of bees that I found in the limbs of a. Apiary of Jacob Wagner, E. Aman.\, Iowa. November and 8 days in December. On December 6 and 7 we had zero weather. On December 29 I renewed the winter- packing over the bees in 25 hives. That is to say, I gave them new, heavy quilts, and had the chaff packing out in the sun, although there was but very little dampness to be noticed. I have now my exact number of colonies wintering that I had when spring opened; i, e., 30 colo- nies to be run for extracted, and 4 colo- nies for comb honey, in the coming sea- son of 1909. Grand Island, Nebr. sour-apple" tree, 8 to 10 feet above the ground. They were hybrids and very gentle, and did not bother me in the least while climbing to my seat where the limbs formed a fork just about 4 feet from the cluster, with my face as close as 2 feet to them, and my hand still closer. Through failure to find a better place, and for some other reason, they selected this rather odd place for their permanent home. They had built 6 combs, 10 inches wide, and 14 to 16 were very thick with leaves, thus form- ing a covering or natural roof, that must have looked inviting to them. Well, I thought it an uncommon sight, anyway, so I decided right there to have it pho- tographed, hoping it might find a corner in the American Bee Journal in the in- terest of its readers. East Amana, Iowa, Nov. 3. "Thick Extracting Combs" BV E. D. TOWNSEND. On page 181 of the American Bee Journal for June, 1908, under the above heading, is an extract from the British Bee Journal, referring to the spacing of extracting combs iJ4
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