Dec. 22, 1904, 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Area of Honey ^Plants for loo Colo, 

 nies. 



How many acres of good honey- 

 plants are required to keep 100 colonies 

 of bees busy during its blooming 

 period ? Can some alfalfa man tell 

 about how much honey an acre of 

 alfalfa would produce ? also, how many 

 acres of the same clover are required 

 for 100 colonies of bees ? 



F. W. Morgan. 



[No definite answer can be made to 

 your question, as everything depends 

 upon the locality and the honey-plant. 

 As a rule, we may say that basswoods 

 will yield a larger amount of honey 

 per acre than any other plant, unless 

 it be the logwood of Jamaica. In a 

 general way we may say that honey- 

 yielding trees will yield more honey 

 per acre than any shrubbery or plant 



In some localities 1000 acres might 

 take care of 100 colonies ; but, as a 

 rule, we may figure that it will require 

 much more than this. As a general 

 thing bees do not fly much further 

 than a mile and a half from the home 

 yard. This would make a circle of 

 three miles across, or 4521 acres. If 

 we allow liberally for wooded lauds, 

 cultivated lands and dwelling-houses, 

 probably we should have to cut down 

 this amount by at least a half, probably 

 a little more, so that, in the height of 

 the honey season, taking clover and 

 basswood as they may come in, 100 

 colonies would not have access to much 

 more than 2000 acres. This would 

 make an aggregate of 20 acres per 

 colony. 



If we turn to the alfalfa regions we 

 shall probably find a much smaller 



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