A MONTHLY JOURNAL 

 Devoted to tlqe Interests of Hoqey Producers. 



$L00 A YEAR, 

 W. Z. HDTCHIMSOM, Editor anil Proprietor, 



VOL, VII 



FLiNT, MICHIGAN, AUG, 10. 1894. 



NO. 8 



Work at IVIicliigaii's 



Experimental 



Apiary. 



K. L. TAyLOK, APIABIST. 



EXPERIMENT,S IN PACKING, SPRING FEEDING, 



ETC., ETC. 



HEREWITH is 

 presented a 

 table in contiii- 

 uation and prolj- 

 ably in conclu- 

 pion for the sea- 

 son, of experi- 

 ments instituted 

 to determine if 

 possible the ad- 

 vantages or dis- 

 advantages of 

 stimulative feed- 

 ing and spring protection, showing results 

 obtained up to the end of the clover and 

 basswood season. It is hardly necessary to 

 say that the table should be studied in con- 

 nection with the one in the July number of 

 the Review. A correction is also to be made 

 in that table in the case of number 6 of the 

 unpacked one-story hives ; its history should 

 run : .5 2i) 5 + 283^ insteads of 4 — 25 

 4+ 25% as now. 



The season has been exceedingly unpro- 

 pitions for almost all kinds of experiments. 

 White clover furnished very little pasturage 

 for the bees ; there was sufficent alsike clo- 



ver in the neighborhood to yield a small 

 amount of surplus, but it came in so slowly 

 that the bees were disposed to store it in the 

 brood combs rather than to draw out foun- 

 dation in the surplus apartments. This state 

 of things made it appear desirable to give a 

 hive of combs for a greater or less time to 

 a considerable number of the colonies under 

 consideration in order to prevent the over- 

 loading of the brood chambers. The first 

 column ia the table, or at least the one fol- 

 lowing the one in which the age of the queen 

 is given, indicates the colonies to which the 

 hives of combs were given and the amount 

 of honey stored in them. After the alsike 

 came l)asswood from which the flow though 

 light was the best of the season. The result 

 is l.hat this experiment is in some degree un- 

 satisfactory in that it has not been attended 

 by a good averatre season for honey produc- 

 tion and yet in addition to the light it gives 

 on the advantages and di-<advaiuages of 

 spring feeding and protection which appears 

 satisfactory, it gives hints both in regard to 

 the right methods to be pursued touching 

 the solution of several important disputed 

 matters as well as in regard to the real truth 

 concerning them. 



Especially I would call the attention of 

 tiiose who are in a state of doubt with regard 

 to the most advantageous size of brood 

 chambers to the figures in the table for the 

 means of making a comparison between 

 hives containing comb equal to that of ten 

 L. frames and those containing only h.df as 

 much. No one, I believe, claims the brood 



