. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 19, 1921. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 221. Seasonable Hints. What are usually known as " drawn- out " combs, whether for the brood cham- ber or the supers, are always a valuable asset to the bee-keeper. One corre- spondent, realising this, asks for a few hints on their production. The next few weeks are the most favourable time to secure them. It is quite possible in a favourable season to get the bees to build brood combs at the latter end of April, but it needs great discretion on the part of the bee-keeper if it is attempted
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 19, 1921. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 221. Seasonable Hints. What are usually known as " drawn- out " combs, whether for the brood cham- ber or the supers, are always a valuable asset to the bee-keeper. One corre- spondent, realising this, asks for a few hints on their production. The next few weeks are the most favourable time to secure them. It is quite possible in a favourable season to get the bees to build brood combs at the latter end of April, but it needs great discretion on the part of the bee-keeper if it is attempted so early. Most bee-keepers take out one or a couple of combs when packing for winter; these are given back to the bees the following spring as the colony in- creases and needs room for expansion. Instead of returning the old combs new frames fitted with foundation should be given, but this should only be done when honey is coming in from the fruit bloom, or there is a good supply from some other source. Combs may, of course, be ob- tained by feeding the bees liberally with sugar syrup, but writh sugar at its present price this will not pay. At the present time honey is coming in fairly fast, and it may be that brood combs are being filled with honey to the exclusion of brood. If so, it will be an advantage to remove If the honey is sealed over, so much the better; they may be kept until after the honey flow, and may save a considerable amount of feeding. Another method is to use standard in- stead of shallow combs for supering. The disadvantages are that so large a space given above the brood nest will iake away from it too much warmth, obliging the bees to stay below in order to keep the brood warm, and they are therefore some time before they " take to " the super. The large combs are also more likely to collapse in the extractor, great care having to be exercised even to prevent bulging, and it is quite easy to not only extract the honey from the comb, but t
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