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VOL. XXVII NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN, NOVEMliER 1, 1914 No. 11 



Management of Three Thousand Colonies Bees in 



Fifty Yards 



By J. J. AVILDER, Cordele, Ga. 



Seccnd Year's Work in New Field 



Our second year's work in the 

 new field was more successful than 

 the first one, because we had mas- 

 tered more of the conditions exist- 

 ing there, viz., the sources of 

 nectar, duration of honey flow, 

 dates of beginning, ending, etc., al- 

 so the sources of pollen. A close 

 record was kept of all this for fu- 

 ture reference as well as the results 

 of the previous year from which 

 we were largely directing our work. 



The one story hives prepared 

 for the increase were scattered 

 around at the nine yards, also one 

 super for every hive, one super for 

 each colony of the increase, every- 

 thing being in readiness. 



The first great pollen plant be- 

 gan to bloom the last week in Jan- 

 uary and the last week in February 



I wrote my man in charge to start 

 his first round for the season but 

 not to work in the apiaries during 

 cold days when the bees were not 

 flying freely. I told him to make 

 a brief record of each colony In 

 each yard and if he found any col- 

 onies with less than one frame of 

 honey in it to give it another 

 frame of honey from some colony 

 heavy in stores. A record was to 

 be made of the frames in each 

 colony also regarding the size of 

 the cluster of bees in smaller col- 

 onies, how many frames of comb 

 v^ere empty or full in each colony, 

 also how many frames contained 

 brood. 



Well the record showed that 

 there was considerable honey 



which would naturally be the case 

 after such a heavy late honey flow 



