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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 1. 



Questioj;)'Box^ 



In the multitude of counsellors tbpre is 

 safety. — Prov. 11-14. 



Tlie Average Weight of Prime 

 Swarms. 



Query 30.— What is the average weight of 

 a natural prime swarm ?— Mich. 



J. A. Green — Five to six pounds. 

 P. H. Elwood — See the bee-books. 

 Wno. McEvoy — About seven pounds. 

 G. M. Doolittle — About five pounds. 

 Jas. A. Stone — I never weighed one to 

 see. 



J. M. Hambaugh — I never weighed one 

 to see. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — About from four 

 to six pounds. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— See what the natural 

 swarmers say. 



W. G. Larrabee — I don't know. I 

 never weighed one. 



Rpv. M. Mahin — Dr. Miller doesn't 

 know, neither do I. 



Eugeue Secor — I never weighed 

 swarms enough to guess. 



Mrs. L. Harrison— I don't know. I 

 should guess 10 pounds. 



Mrs. .1. N. Heater — I should estimate 

 about 2y> or 3 pounds. 



C. H. Dibbern — They vary a good deal. 

 I should call 4 to 5 pounds a fair-sized 

 swarm, 6 to 7 pounds an extra-good one. 



Emerson T. Abbott — I do not know. 

 If they were full of houey, they would 

 weigh more than they would if they 

 were not. 



E. France — Something less than a 10. 

 What is the weight of a pig ? Oh, " aver- 

 age " weight? I don't know — never 

 weighed one. About a peck. 



R. L. Taylor — About six pounds where 

 the production of comb honey is the ob- 

 ject. Culoiiles devoted to the production 

 of extracted honey, and furnished with 

 plenty of conjbs, should cast swarms 'Z 

 or 3 pounds heavier. 



J. E. Pond — About four pounds I have 

 ff und a fair av>-r«ge. I have had prime 

 swarms that weighed only about two 

 pounds, and then again I have had one 

 or two that weighed over six pounds. 

 The difference in length of time that 

 elapses before hiving will, I think, make 

 quite a difference in weight, by the 

 greater or less honey consumed after 

 swarming and before hiving. So that a 

 heavy swarm, when it comes out, might 

 be quite light when hived. 



6. W. Demaree — It depends too much 

 upon the amount of honey the swarm 

 loads up with when it leaves its tenement 

 house, to fix a reliable standard of 

 weight fur an average swarm. Accord- 

 ing to some experiments I have con- 

 ducted, a bee can carry its own weight 

 In honey over and above its food in its 

 digestive organs. You can readily see 

 the difficulty of fixing the weightof bees. 

 It is like weighing a man with a load of 

 Indefinite weight on his shoulder, to as- 

 certain his live weight. The average 

 swarm, honey and all, is about six 

 pounds. I mean prime swarms. 



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