AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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strong Colonics for Coinb Honey 

 or for Extracted 2 



Query 876.— If you wore going to run one- 

 half: of you apiary for extracted honey, would 

 you take the strongest colonies for comb or 

 for extracted honey ?— Georgia. 



Comb. — C. C. Miller. 



For comb honey. — M. Mahin. 



For extracted honey. — G. M. Doolit- 



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The strongest for comb honey. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



The strongest for comb honey. — Mrs. 

 L. Harrison. 



I would take the strongest for comb 

 honey. — E. France. 



I would take the strongest colonies for 

 comb honey. — J. P. H. Brown. 



I would take the strong colonies for 

 comb honey. — J. H. Larrabee. 



Better make the two divisions equal 

 as to strength. — P. H. Elwood. 



"I dunno." It must depend upon the 

 demands of our customers. — Will M. 

 Barnum. 



It is of no importance. The strong 

 colonies will yield the most surplus of 

 either grade. — Dadant & Son. 



Usually the strongest, though not 

 necessarily, as the swarming tendency 

 complicates matters. — A. J. Cook. 



I would take the strongest colonies for 

 the honey that had the best demand in 

 my home market. — J as. A. Stone. 



Each apiarist should settle this mat- 

 ter to his own satisfaction. I would 

 take the strongest ones for extracting. 

 — J. M. Hambaugh. 



Only strong colonies produce flrst-class 

 comb honey. Neither will it pay to ex- 

 tract from anything but strong colonies. 

 — Emerson T. Abbott. 



That would depend upon the charac- 

 ter of the honey-flow. Usually I would 

 use the strongest colonies for comb 

 honey.-- -James A. Green. 



For comb honey, as you may extract 

 from a one-frame nucleus, but it takes 

 strong colonies to do much at storing 

 section honey. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



I should run all the strong colonies 

 for comb honey. Weak colonies will 

 often store considerable honey in comb 

 provided for them, that would do noth- 

 ing at all in sections. — C. H. Dibbern. 



I would run the strongest for extracted, 

 especially when the season was likely to 

 be a short one, for in such a locality one 

 would likely have many unfinished sec- 

 tions at the close of the season. — S. I. 

 Freeborn. 



Neither. I run for comb honey as a 

 rule first, then as I secure what I think 

 will be a fair proportion, I keep uniting 

 unfinished sections, and putting on ex- 

 tracting supers. This gives me com- 

 paratively few cull sections at the close 

 of the honey-flow. — R. F. Holtermann. 



As a rule, I would use the strongest 

 colonies for storing comb honey. If 

 swarms are permitted to issue, I put the 

 swarms at work on comb honey, and the 

 parent colonies on extracting combs. In 

 short, I use my best judgment in work- 

 ing my bees, without being bound to any 

 rule. — G. W. Demaree. 



I should start ray strongest colonies 

 on comb honey, but should take two or 

 three of the weakest, and use them in 

 brood-rearing until all were brought up 

 strong and active. It doesn't pay to 

 run weak colonies, anyhow, except as 

 feeders for the purpose of strengthening 

 fairly strong colonies, or as queen- 

 breeders. — J. E. Pond. 



That depends. If I wanted no swarms, 

 and did not know any better way to pre- 

 vent them, I would use the strongest for 

 extracted honey until the swarraing- 

 fever was over. If I liked the produc- 

 tion of comb honey better, I would use 

 the strong ones for that. If I wanted 

 to make a trial for comparison, I would 

 divide them equally. — Eugene Secor. 



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