. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Aug. 20, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 543 no clipped queens. My average }• if Id is from 50 to 60 pounds per colony, sprints count, and I never rob my bees. I have luid 10 new swarms so tar this spring, and they were all very large; and I wish to state that every swarm could be hived sitting in a chair, and with perfect ease. Now, don't think I am jesting, for I am in earnest, as many of my bee-friends around here can testify. I will further say that during all these years only one swarm clustered over 4 feet high. We have between and 200 colo
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Aug. 20, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 543 no clipped queens. My average }• if Id is from 50 to 60 pounds per colony, sprints count, and I never rob my bees. I have luid 10 new swarms so tar this spring, and they were all very large; and I wish to state that every swarm could be hived sitting in a chair, and with perfect ease. Now, don't think I am jesting, for I am in earnest, as many of my bee-friends around here can testify. I will further say that during all these years only one swarm clustered over 4 feet high. We have between and 200 colonies of bees in this vicinity, and many have foul brood. I have it on all sides of me, from within a mile to 40 rods, and have never had a cell in any of my colonies, and you may guess" how thankful I am. Our bee-keepers, whose bees have it, are getting rid of it as fast as they can, and when they all get it disposed of they will not invest in it again in this vicinity. Right here, while on this very important subject to bee-men all over the United States, I wish to answer a question asked in the Chi- cago convention by Mr. Craven (seepage460). Question : Does it pay to feed sugar (or the manufacture of honey with a view to profit' My answer is emphatically _Vu. And I say also, and wish that I could be in the conven- tion at Angeles, so that all bee-men could hear me, Xever feed sugar to bees unless you want to out off the head of the hen that lays the golden egg. And now I want to be put on record as saying that there would never have been such a scourge as foul brood if all bee-keepers would deal honestly with their bees. Oh, that almighty dollar ! Poor bees, those abundant winter stores taken away and adulterated sugar substituted, and still a little later, on close examination, oh, horrors, foul brood! And now, my brother bee-keepers, I have not been joking. I know what I am saying, and later you will all know that I know, so get rid of foul brood, all you who h
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