1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Overstocking 



321 



Is one of the most difficult problems for the apiarist 

 to solve. We have been taught that 100 colonies are 

 about the profitable limit for an apiary. Perhaps this 

 is true in the majority of cases; but if it is possible to 

 increase the number it will greatly lessen the expense 

 of managing a large number of colonies. Mr. E. W. 

 Alexander, of Delanson, N. Y., has for a number of 

 years been keeping large numbers of colonies in one 

 apiary. I,ast year he had 700 in his home apiary, and 



this year he expects to increase the number to'lOOO. 

 He gives his experience, along this line, in an inter- 

 esting article in the Bee-keepers' Review for March. 

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