Fall Time to do Beekeeping Chores
** honey crop is spotty over price . They are needed, and you
the State, the total spring and may in the future have a need for
summer crop is below average, this source of income. It is foolish
Goldenrod appears to be in ex- to think that you can still afford to
cellent condition, so a good ren t bees for $5 per colony when
harvest is dependent upon the y OU consider the honey crop lost,
weather The conditions m late cost of labor> and the cost of
August have been poor for nectar moving bees. You would serve
gathering, but excellent for plant yourself and the fruit or seed
growth. producer better if you charged a
The supply of honey is still higher price and gave better
short and the prices are holding colonies of bees and good service,
at a high level One-pound jars of one beekeeper in New York
honey are selling at around $1 charges as high as $25 per colony
t^ flVe ' P ° Und '* arS aS but gives very strong colonies of
$4.50 in many areas. The bees and good service. It’s
wholesale price of local honey in something to think about,
drums and 60’s is between 40 and It is time to remove the spring
45 cents per pound. Some people and summe r crop of honey,
feel that these pnces are too high Goldenrod has just started to
while others feel that honey has
finally reached its fair price.
Time will tell.
Renting bees for pollination has
dropped off because of the in
creased demand and price for
honey. It might be well to con
sider renting bees but at a fair
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Quarryville —786-7361
HENRY B. HOOVER
Ephrata —733-6593
FOWL’S FEED SERVICE
Peach Bottom—s4B-2376
HAROLD LANDIS
Willow Street-464-3800
Dr. Adams To Speak at
Garden Spot YF Meeting
The Garden Spot Young evening, September 18. The
Farmers will meet Tuesday meeting will be entitled “What is
a Livestock Feeding Plan”.
Speaker will be Dr. Richard
Adams, director of Forage
Testing Service, Penn State
University. Dr. Adams is also a
dairy feeding specialist. The
meeting will be held in the
agricultural classroom at Garden
Spot High School at 7:45 p.m.
Topics Dr. Adams will be
discussing include:
1. What makes up a feeding
plan.
HARRY FREESE
Oxford—932-9762
AMOSEBY
Paradise —687-6091
produce and will affect the flavor
of the honey now on the bees.
Most beekeepers prefer to keep
honey separated by flavor.
Usually summer honey is mild
while fall honey has a richer
flavor. If you sell only wild flower
honey, it might as well stay on
until frost unless you are short
supers.
Only honey which is sealed,
should be removed, but a few
open cells on the edges or on the
outside combs will probably do no
harm. Bee escapes, shaking,
flowers, repellents such as
Benzaldehyde, are approved
methods for removing honey. Do
not use carbolic acid or smoke to
chase the bees out of the supers.
Supers which have been ex
tracted should be replaced on the
2. Determining livestock
nutritional needs.
3. Difference between
various measures of feed quality.
4., Pitfalls of feeding
programs.
5. Value of forage analysis.
6. The use of urea in sileage
and grain.
7. How your feed dealer can
help you develop a feeding plan.
An added highlight of the
meeting will be free forage
analysis kits, a $6.25 value, given
away as door prizes.
Representatives from local
feed companies are encouraged
to attend. Dr. Adams will be
speaking to feed dealers as well
as farmers.
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.., is the very best time to spread lime
stone. It then has all winter through
rain, snow, freezing and thawing - to
seep to root depths. Lime needs time to
unlock vital nutrients and sweeten the
soil so the fertilizers you apply in the
Spring will do all you expect them to.
Give you bigger, healthier crops.
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colonies to prevent wax moth
damage and to provide space for
fall honey. This would be a good
time to use queen excluders
under these wet supers.
Queen excluders work fine in
the fall. They have a tendency to
force the bees to store more
honey in the food chamber and
brood nest where it is needed for
good wintering. It is especially
important under wet supers since
the bees and the queen will
usually go into these supers right
away. Be sure to remove the
queen excluders and empty
supers after frost. Some colonies
are lost every year because bees
go through the excluder but the
queen is locked below.
Good wintering, spring
buildup, and often swarm control
is the result of fall requeening.
Young queens lay better in the
fall, start earlier in the spring,
and are less likely to be super
seded the following year.
Records indicate that colonies
headed by young queens swarm
less and produce a better crop of
Whatever your dairy feeding program, you can
use new Wayne 32% Dairy Krums to good ad
vantage. Just balance this blend of high quality
proteins, vitamins and minerals with the nutrients
in your own farm grains. Select the protein level
that is right for the roughage used. Each cow*
will produce milk at her full bred-in milking power.
And, the texture of ground and mixed rations is
improved. Ask us for details.
To Hvlp Your Dairy Herd
STAY OUT IN FRONT
CHARLES E.SAUDER
&SONS
R.D 1, East Earl
HERSHEY BROS,
Reinholds
WHITE OAK MILL
R D. 4, Manheim
S i EVENS FEED MILL,
INC.
Stevens, Pa
PARADISE SUPPLY
Paradise
FOWL'S FEED SERVICE
R D 2, Peach Bottom
H.M. STAUFFER
& SONS. INC.
Witmer
honey than colonies with older
queens.
Fall is the recommended time
to requeen even though it is more
difficult to find the old queen.
Requeening is best done when
there is a light honeyflow. Use of
a nuc or a double screen above
the colony to be requeened is
worth a trial. This eliminates the
problem of a queenless period if
she is not accepted. Once the new
queen has started to lay, she may
be' united over a sheet of
newspaper. Acceptance is high
with this method.
Almost all county fairs and
farm shows have classes for
honey and beeswax. This is a
good way to get honey out where
people can see it. It’s really a
form of promotion and you may
need this in the future. There are
usually three to five color classes
in extracted honey so that there is
a class for almost any honey.
Honey should be clean and free of
foam and in uniform containers.
Arnold G. Lueck
Associate County Agent
USE WAYNE ANIMAL
HEALTH AIDS TO KEEP
YOUR LIVESTOCK AND
POULTRY HEALTHY
JE’MAR FARM
SUPPLY INC.
Lawn—Ph' 964-3444
ROHRER’S MILL
R D 1, Honks
HAROLD H. GOOD
Terre Hill
MOUNTVILLE
FEED SERVICE
R.D.2, Columbia
DUTCHMAN FEED
MILLS, INC.
R.D.I, Stevens
GRUBB SUPPI .
Elizabeth}' i
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