. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 215 has advanced until wurin, pleasant weather is the rule and the first " brood " has hatched out, and the bees have comnieuced to boom, then is the time to Acrp them booming by protection and by feeding when there is not enough honey coming in to do this. After brood rearing has commenced in real earn- est there ought to be no check. On the con- trary, it ought to go on increasing, reaching its maximum at the opening of the main harvest. Where the harvest comes early and is of short duration, as is the case where it c
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 215 has advanced until wurin, pleasant weather is the rule and the first " brood " has hatched out, and the bees have comnieuced to boom, then is the time to Acrp them booming by protection and by feeding when there is not enough honey coming in to do this. After brood rearing has commenced in real earn- est there ought to be no check. On the con- trary, it ought to go on increasing, reaching its maximum at the opening of the main harvest. Where the harvest comes early and is of short duration, as is the case where it comes from clover alone, there is no hope of success unless the colonies are in prime condition at the opening of the harvest, and in all earnestness let me ask if there are more potent agencies, in bringing about this result, than protection, and feeding when necessary? I am not sure what style of feeder is best for this spring, stimulative feeding. By the way, I do not like the word "stimulative" as applied to this kind of feeding. I would feed simjily to take the place of the natural honey flow when the latter fails. A feeder upper edges of which are " bee-space " below the cover. The reservoir is in the center, and just over it a part of the cover slides back in grooves to allow the feeder to be filled. The inside partitions, next the re- servoir, reach the cover but do not quite reach the bottom of the feeder. This allows the feed to pass under the partitions and rise up between the thin slats. While this feeder is preeminently adapted for the feeding back of extracted honey to secure the completion of unfinished sections, or for feeding bees for winter, I know of no reason why it is not just as suitable for the spring feeding of which we are talking, as is any other feeder. If some other is better, the object of this discussion is to make that discovery. The Heddon feeder will answer as well as any for an open-air feeder; but, after giving this style of
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