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which did not swarm and which were not manipulated in any way to 
prevent swarming, produced an average of 120 pounds per colony, hence 
it does not appear that the shaking treatment materially reduced the 
honey production of these colonies. One might be inclined, from a con- 
sideration of these figures, to suppose that the shaking treatment had 
actually increased the production, but such a conclusion would not be 
correct. The fact that the five “shaken” colonies made a higher average 
yield than the twelve which did not swarm is doubtless accounted for by 
the fact that these five colonies were exceptionally strong. Had it been 
possible to prevent them from swarming and still retain all their brood, 
their production would have been even higher than it was following the 
shaking treatment. 
HONEY PRODUCTION OF CARNIOLAN AND ITALIANS COMPARED. 
We had in this vard four Carniolan colonies which were up to full 
strength at the beginning of the honey-flow. They produced, respectively, 
%9, 98, 115 and 121 pounds of surplus during the season, or an average 
of 103 pounds per colony. Twenty Italian colonies, also in good con- 
dition and strong at the opening of the honey season, made an average 
of 121 pounds per colony. It also happened that the average production 
of the Carniolan colonies, 103 pounds per colony, was exactly the average 
production of all colonies, Carniolans, Italians and hybrids, in the apiary. 
In fairness to the Carniolans, it should be said, however, that four colonies 
is too small a number to give an accurate index of producing capacity. 
It is never possible to get even two colonies at exactly the same strength 
or in the same condition, hence reliable conclusions from experiments 
in which honey production is involved can be arrived at only by a large 
number of experiments and by taking the average production of a large 
number of colonies. We offer the above figures for what they are worth 
and they show that the Carniclans at least equaled the average of the 
yard. 
It is expected that more complete data on relative production by the 
Carniolans and Italians will be available at the end of the coming season, 
as the result of experiments which are now under way and which include 
a larger number of colonies. 
