THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



355 



Management of 3000 Colonies in Fifty 



Different Yards 



J. J. WILDER, Cordele, Ga. 



Continued from page 3:^2 

 Clincapin, the honey of which 

 was very inferior. During this flow 

 the bees had built up and several 

 barrels of this honey had been 

 removed. 



Upon examination I found that I 

 was short a great amount of bees- 

 wax that I was expecting and also 

 short a good number of colonies 

 from the original number. I dis- 

 covered that my apiarist had dug 

 pits in the beeyards and buried the 

 comb and honey as he removed it 

 during transferring in order to 

 avoid robbing. As the transferring 

 was done by the immediate meth- 

 od and only a few days previous 

 to the spring honey flow, starva- 

 tion struck the yards for the bees 

 had lost all their stores. They had 

 swarmed out and got together in 

 great clusters, which give no end 

 of trouble and losses. Then too, 

 whole apiaries were transferred at 

 a time and not just a few colonies 

 at a time. Ihen too I found that 

 nearly every brood nest was badly 

 honey clogged and the queens were 

 not active. My apiarist told me 

 that he had removed a lot of honey 

 from the brood nests but that it 

 never did any good, for the bees 

 would refill the comb with honey 

 and in many cases the queens 

 would not occupy it. He did not see 

 any use to proceed further with 

 this part of the work. This of 

 course was true but he should not 

 have stopped but kept on and re- 

 sults - would have been better. 



I took my helper and we extract- 

 ed the honey from the brood nest 

 and inserted the empty comb in 

 the middle of the hive. I noticed 

 by the time I got around that the 

 queens in the first yard were be- 

 ginning to get very active. As the 

 honey plant was still yieding nectar 

 the chances were good for some 

 honey, at least if we could get 

 enough bees into the hives. We 

 finished this task and gave the 

 bees plenty of empty supers which 

 were ready. My helper and I came 

 back to Cordele to assist the man 

 left in charge there to take off 

 the summer crop of honey and pre- 

 pare same for market, while await- 

 ing results for a few weeks in 

 the new field. 



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