. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 748 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 26, 1905 around. There was indication of robbers and DO fighting. What is your opinion of the cause? Ohio. Answer.—1. The queen is in the lower, not the upper story. Queen-cells or virgin queens, caged in some way for protection, may be kept in the same story with the queen; but generally, for the sake of convenience, they are kept in an upper story over an excluder. 2. I don't know. It may be that a small vagrant swarm entered, and its bees were killed by the colony. Feeding Bees for Winter 1. I started with one colo
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 748 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 26, 1905 around. There was indication of robbers and DO fighting. What is your opinion of the cause? Ohio. Answer.—1. The queen is in the lower, not the upper story. Queen-cells or virgin queens, caged in some way for protection, may be kept in the same story with the queen; but generally, for the sake of convenience, they are kept in an upper story over an excluder. 2. I don't know. It may be that a small vagrant swarm entered, and its bees were killed by the colony. Feeding Bees for Winter 1. I started with one colony last spring, and now have 6. I am feeding some of them, and getting them ready for winter? Should I put the frames that are filled best in the cen- ter of the hive, and the poorest on each side? I use 8-frame dovetail hives. 2, How many pounds of syrup does it take to equal a pound of honey, if it is made of equal parts sugar and water. I suppose this is quite hard to estimate, but could you give me some idea? My bees may go through all right, but I think the hives are a little light to be safe. Minnesota. Answers.—1. I really don't feel sure just what is the best arrangement. Following the example of the bees themselves, it would be to have the outside frames entirely filled, and the upper parts of the central frames well filled. But you may not have exactly that kind of combs, and if you have combs that are entirely filled and others that are practi- cally empty, it might be best to put the empty combs all at one side. 2. Take 5 pounds of sugar and 2 pounds of water, and you will have a syrup of about the consistency of honey. According to that, if you take 5 pounds of sugar and 5 pounds of water, and the bees evaporate it down to the consistency of honey, you will have about 7 pounds of the evaporated syrup. Not quite so much as that, for there is some loss in the evaporating. But look here, my good friend, you're not thinking of feeding equal parts of sugar and water
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