The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-01-12
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Helpful Suggestions For the
Agrlculturists.
HINTS THAT ARE INTERESTING.
Some Coco Advice for the karAIIsts-A
Budget of knowledge That May
Prove Beneficial.
Bees aud Honey.

IL VI. Peters OF FallbrOok recently
read paper on Bees and Honey" 8
a farmers institute, in which he said
THE subject of most Importance il
how TO secure the largest amount o.
surplus honey. Other things being
equal, the colony having the largest
number of bees will produce the inost
honey. Hence the necessity OF strong
colonies. To insure q strong colony,
you should have a prolific queen.
When il is found that queen is not
prolific, either from age or other
causes, che should be removed and q
new one introduced
Every beekeeper should raise his
own queens after importing enough to
breed from. The queen nursery should
be started early in the spring in order
to have supply of young queens as
soon as brood-raising gets well under
way, and az soon as possible all unde-
sirable queens should be replaced by
new ones. In good year il is import
ant to have your bees brood up early,
and II your poor queens are removed
early you will save much valuable
time.
There is difference of opinion as
to what is the best variety Of bees,
whether Italian, black hybred or some
other kind. But having decided what
kind you want, you must raise that
kind, and raise your queens from the
best honey-producers OF that kind.
Il believe many people make great
mistake in leaving their bees without
sufficient stores during the winter and
early spring. They seem to think that
II the bees have sufficient honey to keep
them from starving, it is sufficient.
As | said before, other things being
equal, the colony with the most bees
will produce the most honey. 1t takes
good deal of honey to raise n hive
full of bees. If their stores are short
and there are only few bees in the
colony, rs good many will be this
year unless they are fed, they will be
very slow in brooding up in the spring,
and much time should be used i'm stor-
ing black sage honey, the best quality
OF honey, will be used in raising beee,
swarming and putting stores in the
brood chamber.
When the fall rains bring out the
early bloom, il the weather is warm
the bees will gather some honey and
pollen, and commence the raising of
brood. Should the weather remain
favorable they will gradually build up,
although their stores of the old honey
are exhausted. But should there be
two or three weeks of cold, rainy
Seather-such that the bees could do
but little ii any work among the flow.
ers, the entire colony is liable to per-
ish.
One point which many producers
OF comb honey do not pay sufficient at
tension to, is giving the queen enough
room during the honey flow. Some
bees seem averse to storing honey In
the sections, gradually filling the brood
frames with honey and cutting off the
supply OF young bees. The apiarist
may wonder why those colonies are
producing so little honey compared
with what they did earlier in the sea.
son. II your brood frames become
filled too full with honey, extract
some of it. Ii you have no extractor.
remove some of the frames that con. |
tain no brood, and put them away
where they will be safe from moth, |
flsl the hive with empty combs or
frames containing full sheets of founda-
ton, placing them In the center of the
hive"