Table 1. Average total square decimeters of brood, honey, and pollen in 24 colonies of bees under three different feeding treatments and two groupings of queens in an evaluation of colony conditions from December to March.
Dates	No Feed				Pollen + Drivert				Soybean Meal + Drivert
	Brood	Honey	Pollen	A-F*	Brood	Honey	Pollen	A-F	Brood	Honey	Pollen	A-F
Queens not caged
12/10/70	6.54	98.59	2.32	10.5	6.62	88.19	4.54	10.6	8.19	91.16	3.62	10.5
12/23/70	8.96	99.48	4.54	9.3	12.74	91.74	4.78	9.5	8.87	90.22	4.35	9.1
1/23/71	27.22	67.10	4.38	9.1	26.17	68.38	4.27	9.2	28.87	55.59	4.14	8.8
2/04/71	57.35	50.45	7.51	10.0	50.12	52.75	6.09	10.5	49.27	44.07	7.30	9.2
2/24/71	62.46	21.14	11.41	11.2	53.75	22.04	4.83	13.5	48.85	12.70	12.54	10.5
5/10/71	55.32	11.03	11.69	12.7	68.88	12.88	8.83	14.7	55.30	5.22	4.19	11.0
3/25/71	74.98	9.41	10.10	14.5	84.03	.81	14.74	16.0	47.75	.83	6.69	11.5
Queens caged
12/10/70	.12	62.96	3.85	10.4	.10	79.90	9.98	10.4	.10	71.33	1.48	10.3
12/23/70	.10	58.38	4.30	9.5	.17	72.25	7.70	9.7	.17	45.98	2.19	9.2
1/21/71	.12	50.32	5.77	8.6	.25	70.72	5.64	9.0	.23	48.04	4.10	8.3
2/04/71	.14	41.03	5.75	5.7	.14	63.12	13.49	6.5	.22	41.93	6.09	5.2
2/24/71	.27	29.01	3.35	4.2	.19	51.49	7.52	4.5	.19	30.59	3.43	4.0
3/10/71	.29	34.78	6.83	2.5	.12	49.36	10.58	3.0	.20	29.54	2.59	2.7
3/25/71	.22	23.30	5.87	2.0	.17	39.87	8.88	2.5	.19	21.90	4.75	2.3
* A-F = Average number of frames covered by bees.
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