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PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian. Mich. 

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get it just as I mean, but perhaps you can 

 understand.) 



I put all the new swarms into lO-frame 

 hives, on full frames of foundation. I then 

 set them on the olil stand, turning the old 

 hive away a quarter, and the third day 

 having them straight side by side, and the 

 7th or Sth day removing the old hive to 

 another stand. It reduces the old colony 

 very low, and I don't know but too much 

 so, for only two of the old ones workt a bit 

 in the supers. One filled about a dozen, 

 and some partly-filled ones, and one filled 

 28 sections and some partly-filled ones. 



This was my first season with sweet clo- 

 ver, and this is what it has been here: Bees 

 were working on it strongly the first week 

 in June, and there was a continuous bloom 

 until the frost killed it. By the side of the 

 railroad, where it was cut early, when it 

 was about two weeks in bloom, and not cut 

 very close, it came on again quickly, and 

 very thick, and made a splendid forage for 

 the bees till the very last. Where it was 

 cut later, and the seed had ripened on the 

 top branches, if cut close to the ground a 

 great part of it was killed, but if cut higher 

 it came on and made quite a show, but not 

 nearly as good as that cut earlier. \Vhere 

 it grew unmolested it was from 4 to (i feet 

 high, blossomed freely, and after it was 

 ripe and lookt all dry from a distance I 

 could find blossoms near the ground, aud 

 bees at work all through it. 



There was quite a show of golden rod last 

 fall, but the bees did not work on it till 

 quite late. It was not to be compared with 

 sweet clover here last year. 



Now I will give the record of my first 

 swarm : It was hived June 6. in a Kiframe 

 dovetail hive, on full sheets of foundation. 

 Three days after I put on it a super of 'JS 

 sections; the '2."ith the bees swarmed out. I 

 hived the swarm in a 10-frame hive, on full 

 sheets of foundation, and set it on the old 

 stand. I took off the iad super of '38 sec 

 tions. and took the Mrd super from the hive 

 they came from, and put it on the last hive. 

 Well, they filled the 10 frames and gave me 

 3 full supers, and one with 13 full and some 

 partly full and capt over, and I have taken 

 one full super of 2S sections, and one with 

 14 full sections, and more partly full from 

 the hive they swarmed out of — that is. the 

 hive I put them into when they first 

 swarmed, June 0. 



Well, I figure that the swarm of June 6 

 gave me 6 supers of 28 sections each, be- 

 sides the 2 supers last taken off, which will 

 more than make up all that was lacking in 

 the first six. besides the partly finisht ones; 

 and then there are the 2 brood-chambers 

 solid full of bees and honey. Result: 168 

 sections of honey and 2 good colonies of 

 bees from one colony in the spring ' 



Colony No. 2 gave me 1 swarm and 124 

 full sections of honey, and a few partly 

 capt. 



Colony No. 3 gave me 1 swarm and 94 full 

 sections, and some partly capt. It also 

 gave me a second swarm that filled a 10- 

 frame body, and is in splendid condition. 



Nos. 4 and ^ gave me nothing but new 

 experience, and today, as Mr. Dadant 

 would say, "they are over-fat." I would 

 like it if there was less honey and more 

 bees. My 5 original colonies I increast to 

 10. and got 426 sections of honey. I sold 

 the first half at 17 cents per section, and 

 one-half of the last at 15 cents, and the bal- 

 ance I have on hand, and think there will 

 be no trouble to get rid of what we don't 

 use. How is that ? Not bad, if you count 

 the whole 5 old colonies in; but if you 

 only count the three that did anything, it 

 makes a good average. 



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My report for ISytJ is as follows: Spring 

 count. 56 colonies, increast to 69. and took 

 7.1100 pounds of honey of good quality, 

 about 6.000 pounds being extracted. I 

 bought 2C colonies last fall, making .5.5 colo- 

 nies, which seem to be wintering well on 

 the summer stands, packt in chaff. 



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