Show bees by the pound there are approximately bees in a pound and they may imay be obtained in packages holding one or more pounds but the two pound size appears to be the most popular tor for all purposes there are however many beekeepers bee keepers who prefer a three pound package thinking that the extra pound of bees will enable the new dew colony to build up more rapidly but says a prominent apiarist experiments with the two sizes of packages do not seem to warrant this assumption for the two pound packages will usually build up as rapidly and store just as much houey honey as do the three pound packages if the bees ar are young and the loss during transportation por tation not excessive there are enough of them in a two pound package to care for all the brood that can be produced by the queen and the colony will build up just I 1 as well without the excess workers |