Keith A. Smith wrote:
>
> Those numbers look impressive, I think there a little stretched out.
> My calculator shows 12.8 gallons of honey per hive.
> Hard to believe in the short Canadian growing season.
> Someone misplaced the decimal point somewhere along the line.
> But I've been wrong before.
> Hi Keith:
 
We are very luckly that the farmer in our area grow a lot of Canola
(re rape) and our bees do very well. The honey is white and smooth.
With proper managament of your bees we have achived over 200lb. per
colony in the past. Making sure your bees are very stong in the spring,
proper feeding, medicating,and reversing of frames in the brood box, and
a good year. The honey flow starts in the end of June and runs to mid
Aug. The most important key is early in the spring mid April we go
through every colony and clean them, move honey stores to the outside
walls so the queen has room to lay. We move any eggs or brood to the
bottom box and put empty frames with pollen and honey in the top box
and then we feed approx. 1-2 gallons of 1 to 1 cane sugar. We found this
method gets the queen laying early.We also requeen the colony if we find
she is failing or just old.Also in the spring we move our colonies into
the summer yards making sure the area is not over foraged by the bees.
 
Just a note on  lbs. per colony
dave