. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, igio. American Vee Journal brood all nearly of tlie same atre. Such a condition is not possible in combs that are Dartly filled with honey when the queen commences to lay in them. Kew rjeople realize how a eood. strong col- ony of bees will boom ahead under the stimulus of regular feeding in the spring. and at this time sugar syrup regularly fed is of ten times the value of capped honey to P. Adams, in the Cuiaduiii Bee Journal. Mr. Adams is one of our most suc- cessful bee-keepers, and also a queen- breeder on a large scale, hen
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, igio. American Vee Journal brood all nearly of tlie same atre. Such a condition is not possible in combs that are Dartly filled with honey when the queen commences to lay in them. Kew rjeople realize how a eood. strong col- ony of bees will boom ahead under the stimulus of regular feeding in the spring. and at this time sugar syrup regularly fed is of ten times the value of capped honey to P. Adams, in the Cuiaduiii Bee Journal. Mr. Adams is one of our most suc- cessful bee-keepers, and also a queen- breeder on a large scale, hence any- thing from his pen is always worth our serious consideration, What he says in the foregoing is, I believe, entirely correct in so far as the handling of pure Italians is concerned, but when Carniolans and their crosses are taken into consideration a lot of modification is necessary, of some of the statements made. With me, the major part of my bees have Carniolan blood, and although the past few years have seen the large hives literally jammed with stores, yet so far the full combs have not bothered me any in the spring. Mr. Adams says : " Bees yvill not use up sealed stores for brood-rearing to any and the pres- ence of this surplus honey in the hives is no indication of prosperity. It is rather the ; Quite possibly so with the Italians, biit pretty sure to be just the reverse with Carniolans. The past 3 springs have been classed as unfavorable for brood-rearing, judging from many re- ports to that effect, but in my own yards my experience has been that just siach springs are the very best for Car- niolans. Granted a big hive with abun- dance of stores early in the spring, even if the bees get only an occasional flight during weeks of bad weather, the result will be, every time, that all these sealed combs will be converted into bees, and the colonies will be boiling over with bees by fruit-bloom. Before me I have a letter, sent me in the spr
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