. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (All rights reserved by the Northeryi Newspaper Syndicate, of Kendaly Eyiglaiid.) PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING, WITH HINTS TO BEGINNERS, . BY Author of "Bees atiil Bee-Eeeping," ^^Pleasurable See-Keeping," etc. No. 7.—SUPERING. The amount of success that a bee-keeper achieves de- pends, as has already been stated, upon surrounding eiriuun- stauces, such as nearness of honey-producing crops to the api- ary, and thi^ state of the weather during the time tliey are in bloom : but with these necessary conditions in his favor, tlicre remains anothe
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (All rights reserved by the Northeryi Newspaper Syndicate, of Kendaly Eyiglaiid.) PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING, WITH HINTS TO BEGINNERS, . BY Author of "Bees atiil Bee-Eeeping," ^^Pleasurable See-Keeping," etc. No. 7.—SUPERING. The amount of success that a bee-keeper achieves de- pends, as has already been stated, upon surrounding eiriuun- stauces, such as nearness of honey-producing crops to the api- ary, and thi^ state of the weather during the time tliey are in bloom : but with these necessary conditions in his favor, tlicre remains another item without which tlie fullest advantage possible cannot be obtained ; his energies must be directed hy thought and applied to the work of the apiary at the riglit time. It is utterly useless expecting full supers if bees are left to themselves; it is equally foolish not to give supers when colonies are strong and honey is being gathered rapidly. I have known many cases where, for want of supers, 4<) or 50 pounds of honey per hive have been lost. For instance, in my own apiary I had three swarms as nearly as possible of the same weight, I hived ihem on the same day in exactly similar hives, and gave exactly the same treatment to all except in one respect. Two were supered a few days after hiving, th.' other was left entirely alone, the consequence being that while the bees of the two supered lots were working vigorously day after day lilling their supers, the bees in the third hive were lounging about tlie entrance doing nothing simply because they had nowhere to put the honey if they gathered it. This resulted in a positive loss of over 20s., as the other two lots stored honey to more than that value. It may be askt, "What is supering ?" This term, tho sometimes wrongly applied, is understood to mean the giving . of bell-glasses, sections, shallow-frames, or, in fact, any re- ceptacle in which tlie bees may store their honey when they are gathering considerab
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