. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 194 June, 1915. {~^^^^-^ pounds per colony, and that means lots of young bees for winter. Then, again, no requeening was done at the home yards, owing to poor season, while at the north yard nearly all colonies have young queens. Another factor is that, while our bees at home had sufficient stores for wintering, yet they have not had quite enough in many cases to allow the bees to go ahead rearing brood fast, even if the weather was too cool to allow much gathering of stores, honey or pollen. Up north every hive was filled solid in the fall, owing to
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 194 June, 1915. {~^^^^-^ pounds per colony, and that means lots of young bees for winter. Then, again, no requeening was done at the home yards, owing to poor season, while at the north yard nearly all colonies have young queens. Another factor is that, while our bees at home had sufficient stores for wintering, yet they have not had quite enough in many cases to allow the bees to go ahead rearing brood fast, even if the weather was too cool to allow much gathering of stores, honey or pollen. Up north every hive was filled solid in the fall, owing to the late flow from asters, and the bees have an un- limited source to draw on. In fact, in many cases it is necessary to extract some of the combs so as to give the queens room to lay eggs, as the hives were actually " honey-bound," as we sometimes say. Between the two ex- tremes of having too much honey in the hives, as compared with the pros- pect of having to feed many here soon, unless fruit bloom yields better than usual, needless to say which I prefer, especially when sugar is as dear as at present. While it is a little trouble to lighten the brood-nests of honey, yet the work is well paid for, as the honey is fair and sells readily, more than paying for all the work, to say nothing of having the satisfaction of knowing that the colo- nies are in first-class condition. While fall feeding is a necessity very often in our locality, spring feeding is always a calamity in my judgment, and only practiced when absolutely necessary to avoid starvation and keep brood from suffering. *-•-? How to Handle Combs Filled With Candied or Granulated Honey Quite a number are inquiring as to what to do with combs filled with can- died or granulated honey. Some are melting them, thinking that the only way to get rid of the honey in the combs. I have a few of these combs filled with honey from the hard maple a year ago, and I shall not melt them up unless it is absolutely necessa
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