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Combed and Extracted. 



Getting Bees Ready for Winter. 



This is none too soon to have an eye 

 to getting bees ready for winter. Plenty 

 of good sealed honey, young queens, 

 and vigorous bees are the desiderata. 

 Let all good colonies alone if they are 

 storing surplus. It is wise to save all 

 the honey possible while the flow of 

 nectar lasts. 



On looking over an apiary of any size, 

 colonies will be found that are not stor- 

 ing surplus, although they may have 

 been a few weeks since ; their case of 

 sections may be partially filled, but they 

 have swarmed probably more than once, 

 and are so weak that they will not finish 

 them during the season. One case of 

 sealed sections is worth much more 

 than many partially filled, and all such 

 should be removed to colonies that are 

 able to complete them, in lieu of giving 

 empty ones. 



When the case of partially-completed 

 sections are removed, the state of the 

 colony can be ascertained, and if found 

 queenless it had better be united with 

 some colony containing a laying one. — 

 Mbs. L. Harrison, in Prairie Farmer. 



Care of Comb Honey. 



If one has surplus cases enough, the 

 best way to care for the honey is to pile 

 up the cases in a dry, warm room — never 

 store it in a cool cellar. Pile the cases 

 with sticks between, so the air can cir- 

 culate through them. If the room is 

 warm and dry enough, the honey in cells 

 not capped over, will thicken and not 

 run out. 



If a queen-excluding honey-board has 

 been used, there will be little or no 

 pollen in the sections, and little danger 

 from the moth. To guard against them, 

 however, it will be best to fumigate once 

 with sulphur about two weeks after re- 

 moval from the hives. 



When ready for market the sections 

 should be put in nice, new shipping- 

 cases, and should be sold only at fair, 

 paying prices. — C. H. Dibbern, in the 

 Western Plowman. 



Don't Fail to read all of page 229. 



OverstocHni a Locati on with Bees, 



Query 832.— How many colonies of bees 

 are required to overstock a location on a 

 peninsula so narrow that within a range of 

 three miles there are only about eight square 

 miles of territory, with an abundance of fruit 

 blossoms, white clover, basswood, milk-weed, 

 and golden-rod ?— Michigan. 



From 100 to 150 colonies.— J. M. 

 Hambaugh. 



That is a pretty good lay-out. It 

 might support 100. — C. C. Miller. 



That is a good location, but a very 

 difficult question to answer. — H. D. Cut- 

 ting. 



Commence with 50, and increase 

 until you find you have too many. — E. 

 France. 



We have never tried such a location, 

 so we could not answer knowingly. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



It is too hard a question. May be 

 100. Perhaps 200. Possibly 50— in 

 some seasons. — Eugene Secor. 



I should say that about 100 would 

 be about the limit that can be profitably 

 kept in such limited space. — C. H. Dib- 

 bern. 



No one knows. It probably depends 

 upon the season. I think that more 

 than 100 colonies would probably work 

 in most seasons at a loss. — A. J. Cook. 



I judge that such a territory as you 

 describe might in a good season support 

 100 colonies. What number would 

 overstock it I cannot tell. — M. Mahin. 



Much depends. Fifty or 100 colo- 

 nies might not overstock it during an 

 extra season, while a half dozen might 

 be too many for a bad season. — J. P. H. 

 Brown. 



As a rule, 100 colonies are enough in 

 one locality ; by separating your apiar- 

 ies 1% or 2 miles, you could probably 

 keep double that number. — Mrs. L. 

 Harrison. 



I don't know. In fact, I don't believe 

 much in the idea of overstocking. I only 

 keep a few colonies for experimental 

 purposes, so I have never had any over- 

 stocking in my own vicinity. — J. E 

 Pond. 



