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yield 40 pounds of extracted hone\'. But little more could have been 

 expected from these colonies although unlimited patience was shown 

 toward them with the hope that conditions might improve. 



29 supers 



Of the 12 colonies rated as Excellent the results are as interesting as 



erratic. Two colonies produced ^ super each, two 1_K supers each, 



one 2>^ supers, five 3 supers each and two 4 supers each. It will be seen 



that five of the twelve which were rated as Excellent produced less than 



the average or 1.3 supers each. On the other hand seven of these twelve 



colonies produced more than the average or 3 2-7 supers each. Then the 



seven colonies produced 3.6 times as much as the five, or 85 per cent of 



the total crop. If all package colonies had produced 3 supers each (the 



amount produced in 5 cases) the 14 colonies would have i3roduced 42 



supers of honey instead of 30 or an increase of 40 per cent or 480 pounds 



having a market value of $120. This amount of money was lost to the 



beekeeper the past season because all the colonies did not produce an 



average return. 



Table II 

 40 

 loss 



31 



1 Poor 



13 Good < 4-1 



■\ -1-1X2 



( -2 =13>2 supers 



2- K 



2- H 

 4-1 K 

 2-2 



17 E.xcellent 10 11 ya supers 



5-3 



1-4 



4-5 =24 supers 



3'iK supers 



