. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March. 1915. j^Amcrican Tiae Joornal The reverse operation would work better, and more than once I have united weal* colonies early in the season. Please re- member this: A colony of bees will accomplish more, either at building up or at storing honey than two colonies of each, even if each of these two colonies has as good a queen as that of the first colony. So far as I can judge I would expect just as vigorous bees from a queen laying jdoo eggs a day as from one laying looo. At or a little before the time the bees have filled one stor
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March. 1915. j^Amcrican Tiae Joornal The reverse operation would work better, and more than once I have united weal* colonies early in the season. Please re- member this: A colony of bees will accomplish more, either at building up or at storing honey than two colonies of each, even if each of these two colonies has as good a queen as that of the first colony. So far as I can judge I would expect just as vigorous bees from a queen laying jdoo eggs a day as from one laying looo. At or a little before the time the bees have filled one story with brood in spring it will work well to put a second story under, but they will not work down any more rap- idly into a shallow chamber than into one of full depth. is off. We are getting locally for a very fair grade of light amber only 4 to i'A cents when we can find some one willing to buy. 1 averaged about 200 pounds per colony, ex- tracted. I hope that conditions will im- prove at least enough to enable me to take all the bee papers that I want Escondido. Calif. Chas. V. Report from Mr. Doolittle We are having lots of snow here and much zero weather, which, together with high winds, has so piled up the snow that our roads are almost impassible; but as the bees are in the cell.'ir they are not harmed. They seem to be wintering well Marietta. N. Feb. 5- (j. M. DoOI-lTTLE. Queens Already Laying in January in Texas This forenoon I examined a yard of 5i col onies. and found quite a few with eggs and sealed brood. Last week I found several colonies with hatching brood in them. The winter has been very mild, and there was a late fall honey flow, and my queens were nearly all reared in the fall. Beeville, Jan. 20. C. S Engle. Summary of the Season in Minnesota The spring of i«i4 was cold and rainy; in fact, during the month of June we had 17 days of rain, and on days it did not rain it was so cool and cloudy that bees could work but half the time, conseque
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