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At 85 degrees F right out of the sump my maxant will pump about 3.5-4 gal per minute.

It was a very short season. As for production, depends on which side of the hill you live on...for most it was below average , then again there were some who did about average. If they take last...

Lakebilly, Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey By Bro. Adam.

I think it was 4 or 5 years ago. I had noticed one hive was superceding their queen. they had a mother and daughter laying side by side in the same colony for the duration of the summer. It was not...

your fingers and jeans are covered in propolis.

Keth,

Its way to early for mated queens up here. You could check around with people in your local bee club to see if they have a dink or overwintered nuc they would toss your way. You may have to...

All of my colonies reside in the Connecticut River Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont (Upper Valley). My 5 year average is 70lbs. When you have years like we did last year with Irene your lucky to...

I would think that 15-20'/. MC would be okay to play with. If Hemlock gets to dry it starts to become a nuisance to work with.

Black locust for 4.00 a b/ft isn't that something. I think I'll stick with white pine. A few years ago I had a customer looking for a load of black locust saw logs, in the pursuit for this load I had...

My apologies for taking the discussion off topic, couldn't help myself.

Thinking that demand creates supply is a flawed Keynesian economic theory, the results lie in what we have for a economy today. Says Law lays it out nicely, demand is infinite, in thinking demand...

Inflation.

Clarifiers work great! From the extractor into the clarifier set at 100 degrees then pumped into a holding tank. My honey house is wood heated so I bottle everything for retail before the cold sets...

Matthew,

I've overwintered a few two queen colonies. I don't anymore... to much work. After the honey crop was harvested in the fall I would replace the queen excluder with a double screen. Or...

Can't wait!!!!

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My home yard. Nucs with some production colonies....

Sqkcrk: My bad, I should have expounded upon why I dont let my nucs raise their own queens. Most of my nucs are being made up from my unproductive production colonies. Given that, I dont want to have...

When it comes to nucs raising their own queens I will always cull that queen, for a number of reasons. The first being that more often then not that queen is compromised from day one, due to the...

Sure, you are correct. But time is an important factor here. If I make up my nucs in June ( New Hampshire) and I dont stay ahead of them by either putting them in double nuc status or removing brood...

Yes, they will swarm if you don't stay ahead of them."Bad" I would say is relative to what you want to accomplish with your nuc program. For me personaly I want to keep my nucs in their boxes, bees...

Gilkey Lumber in Rutherfordton NC, Mills and dries 4/4-8/4 white pine.

Honey crop just about failed for me. Was able to harvest 3000 lbs, half of what I could harvest in a "normal" year. Dry hot August with a very wet late summer/early fall made for a bad year. The...

You will always know when its 12:00 while you are catching queens.

I have compiled a list of beekeepers here in NH who are selling/breeding queens or who would be interested in the NEBBA.

Try this one. http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa478/t_roy1/SU1HMDAzNDAtMjAxMTA4MjktMTY1NS5qcGc.jpg