. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 232 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. March 23, 190S. nothing- with the entire summer and fall—a strong- colony of hybrids, -which were as savage bees as I ever saw. What would you do with them in the spring ? Would you introduce an Italian queen ? That is, if you could get near them 7 or if you couldn't, what would you do ? L,ast year was a fairly good one for dark honey or buckwheat. Clover was checked by the dry season, but come to think of it, there was too much rain. I took off about 300 pounds of extracted honey and one super of comb honey. I can easily
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 232 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. March 23, 190S. nothing- with the entire summer and fall—a strong- colony of hybrids, -which were as savage bees as I ever saw. What would you do with them in the spring ? Would you introduce an Italian queen ? That is, if you could get near them 7 or if you couldn't, what would you do ? L,ast year was a fairly good one for dark honey or buckwheat. Clover was checked by the dry season, but come to think of it, there was too much rain. I took off about 300 pounds of extracted honey and one super of comb honey. I can easily sell more than I can get. There are only two other bee-keepers around here, and they are men. I would like to get some other women interested in bees, but they get frightened when I mention it, saying they are afraid of getting stung. Well, I was, too, but have gotten over it. Ethei, M. Burdette. Hunterdon Co., N. J., Feb. 6. Yes, it would be a good plan to give them a queen of gentler stock, if not too difiBcult to do so. But you may find that they superseded their queen last fall, and that the workers of the new queen are more gentle. And you may find, too, that without any change of queen there may be a change of temper. I have distinctly in mind a colony that was extremely cross, and the only thing that saved the head of that queen was the fact that we were so very busy that we let it slip along until too late to requeen that season. The next spring they were a good, strong colony, and did excellent work all season, and so far as we could see were quite as gentle as any colony in the apiary. Report from a " Mother " Bee-Keeper—Severe Winter. Dear Miss Wilson :—If the rest of the sisters had been as slow as I have been in giving their reports you would not have had very many. I have had so much to do, and no one to do anything but me. The past season was not a very good one. From 8 col- onies I secured only 75 full sections, 22 not full, and 13 that I gave t
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