. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 15, 1919. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 189. Seasonable Hints. At the time of writing there is a very welcome change in the weather. The fruit trees are becoming gay with blossom, and the meadows yellow with dandelions, and the bees have been able to collect their natural food, nectar and pollen, from the flowers. Some stocks are very strong, and already we hear of supers being put on in the fruit districts. Those who desire some surplus from this source, if the bees are not covering the ten combs, should crowd them up on to, say, eight com
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 15, 1919. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 189. Seasonable Hints. At the time of writing there is a very welcome change in the weather. The fruit trees are becoming gay with blossom, and the meadows yellow with dandelions, and the bees have been able to collect their natural food, nectar and pollen, from the flowers. Some stocks are very strong, and already we hear of supers being put on in the fruit districts. Those who desire some surplus from this source, if the bees are not covering the ten combs, should crowd them up on to, say, eight combs, and put the supers on. The other two combs may be given later on, when the queen needs more room to carry on her own particular work of egg laying. While the warm weather continues there is no need to feed, but should the weather again change (and there are no bounds to its vagaries) it may be necessary. Last Sunday we saw children gathering, and bees working, on the bloom of the 1)Lack- thorn in the hedges by the side of the road, where less than a fortnight earlier there were snow drifts four or five feet thick. The brood nest will now extend by leaps and bounds, and a large quantity of food will be needed i)y the larvje. After even one day of cold and wet the food supply may have run out. Those colonies that have not yet the full complement of ten combs should have others added as they need more room. Where possible, give a couple of frames fitted with full sheets of worker base foundation. If half sheets, or starters are given now, the probability is that all the comb below the foundation will be drone, and later on there will be far too many drones in the hive. Some drones there must be, and the bottom corners of the foundation may be cut away, where the bees will build drone comb enough to furnish quite plenty of drones. Those who are rearing queens may desire to make as certain as possible that the young queens shall mate with drones from one particu- lar hive. In th
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