. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. " Golden " Method of Comb Honey Production. BY J. S. HABTZELL. As the season for the production of honey In these parts has closed, and the product stored in supers removed and assorted and cleaned ready for shipment, I wish to apprise our " Doubting Thomas " (Mr. S. A. Deacon), and any others, of the results obtained from my apiary of 61 colonies, 40 of yielded 1,866 completed sections. The 21 colonies on the general plan, 489 completed sections. Average per colony on the Golden plan, of 46 13/20 sections ; on general plan, 23 2/1
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. " Golden " Method of Comb Honey Production. BY J. S. HABTZELL. As the season for the production of honey In these parts has closed, and the product stored in supers removed and assorted and cleaned ready for shipment, I wish to apprise our " Doubting Thomas " (Mr. S. A. Deacon), and any others, of the results obtained from my apiary of 61 colonies, 40 of yielded 1,866 completed sections. The 21 colonies on the general plan, 489 completed sections. Average per colony on the Golden plan, of 46 13/20 sections ; on general plan, 23 2/1 sections. Now, I hope this is plain enough for Mr. Deacon, or any one who may be Interested enough to read this article, to understand. It may be well enough, also, to state that of the 40 colonies on the Golden plan 10 recast swarms, six of which were from superseding queens, the remainder (four), with the exception of one dissatisfied with results, and as soon as the queen was liberated and began to deposit eggs, renewed their efforts and prepared In the regular order for swarming. The one excep- tion was a colony in a lOframe hive, and the second day aftar liberating the queen swarmed twice (forenoon and afternoon) with not a sign of queen-cell as I made a thorough examina- tion while the swarm was out each time, and after returning the second time began work and have behaved nicely Interim' View of the Apiary Building at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. which, as stated In the former article, were workt on the Golden plan, and the remainder, 21 colonies, on the general, or, as I termed It, "orthodox " plan, fortheseason now closed. First, then, for results in completed sections of honey which stand as follows: The 40 colonies on the Golden plan Will some of our experts—Dr. C. C. Miller, Doolittle, or auy other little or big man—explain the cause, or will all plead as Dr. Miller often does—" don't know ?" My own Idea In regard to this colo
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