. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-ICEEPERS' REVIEW lOS corded, and the use to be made of such records. First, I want to know the g'eneral condition of each colony as it relates to its ability to produce. Second, I want to know what and when anything is to be done. Third, I want to know, for how much of the results the queen is responsible. Also, I want to be able to g'O directly to the colony desired, and, further, if I change queens or colonies about, I want to keep track of it without a lot of copying or confusing change of numbers. I reach these ends in this manner: The coloni
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-ICEEPERS' REVIEW lOS corded, and the use to be made of such records. First, I want to know the g'eneral condition of each colony as it relates to its ability to produce. Second, I want to know what and when anything is to be done. Third, I want to know, for how much of the results the queen is responsible. Also, I want to be able to g'O directly to the colony desired, and, further, if I change queens or colonies about, I want to keep track of it without a lot of copying or confusing change of numbers. I reach these ends in this manner: The colonies in each apiary are ar- ranged in rows and each stand is num- bered. The number is permanent and unchanged so long as the yard is used order. Behind these "stand guides" go the records of the queens and col- onies on the stands. The record cards are ruled so as to facilitate the record- ing, and, to still further simplify this work, and at the same time get rid of any confusing symbols, I use a series of numbers to denote conditions. HOW TO USE THE CARDS. I mentally group the colonies into three classes, namely, "Good," "Fair," "; To designate these condi- tions I use the numbers 1, 2 and 3. If a colony is exceptionall}' good or poor, I use an "X" in connection with the number. That is all that it is neces- sary to have on a record card to enable one to tell whether or not that colony is. TRAY FOR HOLDING CARDS. for bees. If one has many colonies in a yard, location of numbers can be made more readily if each row con- tains a certain number of stands. For example, 1 to 50 in the first row, the second fifty in the second row, and so on. Then if the rows are broken by an extra space after every tenth hive, it is but the matter of an instant to locate any particular stand. So much for the yard part of it. HOW TO ARRANGE THE CARDS. The cards to fit this arrangement are fixed as follows: First there is put into the tray a card
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