. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. editorial ^otes and Commenfs. "Keep Your Colonies Strong" This motto, under the title of Oettl's Golden Rule, is given in the closing paragraph of Langstroth's classic work as the essence of all prolltable bee-keeping. It is generally agreed that the strong colonies are the profit- able ones; and probably few would dispute the statement that 3 colonies of 30,000 bees each will not store as much as the united force of 60,000 bees in one colony. Yet some modify the motto by saying: Know the honey-resources of your locality, and have colonies s
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. editorial ^otes and Commenfs. "Keep Your Colonies Strong" This motto, under the title of Oettl's Golden Rule, is given in the closing paragraph of Langstroth's classic work as the essence of all prolltable bee-keeping. It is generally agreed that the strong colonies are the profit- able ones; and probably few would dispute the statement that 3 colonies of 30,000 bees each will not store as much as the united force of 60,000 bees in one colony. Yet some modify the motto by saying: Know the honey-resources of your locality, and have colonies strong for the harvest; but do not have a lot of bees reared to come upon the stage as a lot of idle consumers when there is nothing for them to do. Certainly it ought to be worth while to avoid needless consumption, when it is considered that the annual consumption of a colony is somewhere from 100 to 200 pounds of honey. But when we come to particulars, the problem does not seem so easy. It is not easy to tell in advance at what time a given plant will be ready to offer its nectar, nor indeed whether it will offer any. If one knows about when a flow may be expected, one may figure when the queen should lay eggs to be ready for it; but how is one to manage to have a small force in the hive during a dearth between two flows? Those who can so control matters as to have a strong force when a flow is on, and a strong force only then, are wise to use such control; the average bee-keeper will do well to get his colonies strong as early as he can in the sea- son, and then try to keep them so. Narrow Frames for Extracted Honey E. D. Townsend says in the Bee-Keepers' Review that manufacturers list no proper frame for extracting purposes, which, he thinks, should have neither top-bar, end-bar nor bottom-bar more than %-inch wide. He says: With this style of frame in our supers, spaced IJi' inches from center to center, we get great, fat combs; then, with a long un- capping knife, out cle
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