. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 133. For the American Bee Journal Producing Comb Honey—?io. 2. G. 31. DOOLITTLE. In Xo. 1, I told you how I managed all the good, strong colonies I had in the spring, to get them in good work- ing order for gathering honey by the time the harvest from white clover arrived. It often happens that all the colonies in an apiary are not thus strong, and as I am requested by several to give my method of treating the weaker ones, I will do so, although it will be somewhat of a repetition of what I have before written on the subject.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 133. For the American Bee Journal Producing Comb Honey—?io. 2. G. 31. DOOLITTLE. In Xo. 1, I told you how I managed all the good, strong colonies I had in the spring, to get them in good work- ing order for gathering honey by the time the harvest from white clover arrived. It often happens that all the colonies in an apiary are not thus strong, and as I am requested by several to give my method of treating the weaker ones, I will do so, although it will be somewhat of a repetition of what I have before written on the subject. Several years ago, when I wished to unite weak colonies in the spring, I did so early; in the season, for the " books" said that the time to unite was when it was discovered that two colonies were too weak to be of use alone, which generally happened in April. That uniting two weak colonies to make one strong one is profitable to the apiarist, no one will deny, (unless, perchance, we are obliged to use everything in the shape of bees, as we were last season, in order to get our former number back again after a heavy loss); still, that uniting must make the one better than each of the Uoo would have been when the honey harvest arrives, or our labor of uniting is worse than use- less. After practicing the plan given in the " books" for a year or two, I he- came convinced that colonies thus formed were no better, at the end of two or three weeks, than each one would have been had fhey been left separate. I have put as high as seven remnants of colonies together in April, the seven making a good large colony at the time, and in a month all were dead. After coming to the conclusion that I could not unite bees with profit in early spring, I adopted the follow- ing plan, which has proved success- ful so far: About the middle of April, some cool evening, I look over all my bees by removing the cap and raising the quilt a little, so I can see how strong in bees th
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