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Date: | Thu, 9 Feb 1995 08:27:16 -0500 |
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Dave;
Another question on the "rim" you describe. What do you make it
out of? Are you using telescoping covers, or and empty super to
fit this rim under? I use a sheet of 5/8's underlayment plywood
for my covers and there's not much room for anything underneath.
Are you wintering in a single deep, a story and a half, or two
deeps? I will start feeding as soon as it warms up a bit, and I
agree about division board feeders and jars and buckets. I have
settled on one gallon jars over a plywood cover with a three inch
circular hole. I can see the jars, see how fast the syrup goes
down, and see the bubbles gurgling from the leakers before I leave
the yard. Still, I don't particularly like using jars. The lids
stick and rust, the bees glue up the holes, they only hold a
gallon, and they have to be stored. so, I am still interested in
the dry sugar if I can figure how to get this rim into my hives
without adding an empty super.
For your information, I am an extension agent in northern N.C. and
I run about 120 hives for honey and pollination. I make dark
honey, but it sells well, and pollinate cucumbers for $30 a hive
(last year's price, probably up to $35 this year). Its good to
talk to someone from the mid-Atlantic area.
Bill
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WILLIAM G LORD
E-Mail : wglord@franklin
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Phone : 9194963344
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