In a message dated 6/4/98 11:20:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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>  I plan on taking George Imirie's workshop at EAS and hope I can figure out
>  what I did wrong, but for now I am puzzled.
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>  Any ideas or discussion?
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>  Ron Bogansky
>  Kutztown, PA
>
I have been following George Imries tips from the Brushy Mountain catalog and
from the Midnight Bee Website- And if you get to meet this man in a workshop
you couldn't do better.
It appears some of your bees built up on the honey flow instead of you
building them up ahead of time for it.
By the way I knocked a hive clean over checking for swarm cells and planned on
getting dotted up by the bees- but the flow was so strong they didn't care
-not one sting
 
I only run 30 hives and maybe Georges reccomendations might be too much work
for the big operators. My best hives now have 4 supers of drawn comb on them
and I have extracted one super each allready and returned the wet combs for a
refill.
Next year they will get 5 supers each.
I run queens from B weaver and Yorks and am in CT   Yorks Midnights are
outproducing the Queens from B weaver but not by much-and i didn't really get
a good comparison as to how each overwintered.
I am   predicting 1 ton of honey this year from 30 hives-  20 of which are
strong for the spring flow and 10 of which are splits or mediocre.
 
Tom in New London CT