Gleanings in bee culture . what by the volumeand rapidity of the flow. When the blos-soms are secreting rapidly and heavily, andnectar is just rolling in, as we say, Isuspect it is lighter in color than when it iscoming more slowly. I confess that this is all mere theorygleaned from my experience. The worst ofit is, that every once in a while somethingwill happen that seems to upset all thecarefully worked-out theories; and condi-tions that ought to produce certain resultswill seem to obtain the opposite; but con-ditions and results as I have given themhere seem from my experience to be thegen
Gleanings in bee culture . what by the volumeand rapidity of the flow. When the blos-soms are secreting rapidly and heavily, andnectar is just rolling in, as we say, Isuspect it is lighter in color than when it iscoming more slowly. I confess that this is all mere theorygleaned from my experience. The worst ofit is, that every once in a while somethingwill happen that seems to upset all thecarefully worked-out theories; and condi-tions that ought to produce certain resultswill seem to obtain the opposite; but con-ditions and results as I have given themhere seem from my experience to be thegeneral rule of causes and effects, and pos-sibly the occasional variations are theexceptions to the rule. At any rate, I amconvinced beyond a doubt that here, at least,there is a variation in the color of alfalfahoney; and I think that some or all of thecondiiiniis T liave mentioned, or perhaps,more strictly speaking, certain combinationsof these conditions, produce the variation. Glendale, Ariz. 924 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Eighteen colonies owned by the Plintstone Farm, Dalton, Mass., that are kept to pollenize 3000 trees. BEES A GREAT HELP IN A 3000-TREE ORCHARD BY RALPH ELY We have an orchard here at Flintstone ofabout 3000 young trees, and in connectionwith this we are interested in beekeeping, asbees are essential to the success of theorchard. We now have about eighteencolonies which did extremely well this year,as there was a fine flow of honey. We believe that the size of our applecrop this year was due in a great measureto our bees. We note in our vicinity that the fruit did not set according to theamount of bloom, and hence we believe thatbees are one of the essential factors in suc-cessful fruit-growing. We are running to the leather and GoldenItalian, and find that the Goldens, particu-larly, give us a great amount of honey, atthe same time showing very little inclina-tion to swarm. Dalton, A SIMPLE METHOD OF FEEDL^G WITHOUT EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT BY L. 0. LE MAY
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