. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 198 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. March 29, CONDUCTED BV DR. C. C. MILLER, Alarengo, III. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.— Feeding Sugar Syrup in Spring. What would be the result to feed with syrup before the spring honey-flow commenced, so that the brood-chamber would become filled and the bees would be forced to carry all new honey into the upper chamber ? Would it produce an inferior quality of bees being fed
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 198 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. March 29, CONDUCTED BV DR. C. C. MILLER, Alarengo, III. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.— Feeding Sugar Syrup in Spring. What would be the result to feed with syrup before the spring honey-flow commenced, so that the brood-chamber would become filled and the bees would be forced to carry all new honey into the upper chamber ? Would it produce an inferior quality of bees being fed on anything but lioney while maturing ? Massachusetts. Answers.—Some have claimed that bees reared on sugar syrup would lack stamina, but the fact is not estab- lisht with entire certainty, and many have had bees reared on syrup without mentioning any difl'erence in the quality of the bees. Caution is needed, however, in feeding syrup largely in early spring. If the weather is objectionable, the feeding may induce bees to fly out and be lost, making more loss than gain. If there is too much syrup in the brood-chamber, there is some danger that some of it may be carried into supers after they are put on. Plan for Avoiding Swarming. I have 25 colonies of bees in good condition. I expect to be away this summer and would like to avoid their swarming, and would like to know if this plan will work : I have 15 hives, each holding 17 frames with a division- board in the center, and a queen and two bees on each side of the division-board, but isolated thoroly. Now suppose I go to the hives filled as above, and between fruit-bloom and white clover, or about the first of June, and pull out the di- vision-board and put on the supers at the same time, and close the hive. Will they swarm with two queens present, or will one queen be killed, if they would swarm ? I expect to give this a trial, and then about the first of August take off honej-, and put in the division-board as be- fore, a
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