. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. avimnl [No. 48. Vol. IV.] APEIL, 1877. [Published Monthly.] (Kbitoml, Itootkes, fa. APEIL. April should be a busy month of preparation, and bee-keepers will be wise if they take time by the forelock and make ready for the coming campaign. The first necessary to success is the early breeding of bees, and stocks should be stimulated to induce them to increase, with as little labour on their part as is possible. On fine mild days it is natural for them to seek for provision from such sources as may be open to them, and as in their search
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. avimnl [No. 48. Vol. IV.] APEIL, 1877. [Published Monthly.] (Kbitoml, Itootkes, fa. APEIL. April should be a busy month of preparation, and bee-keepers will be wise if they take time by the forelock and make ready for the coming campaign. The first necessary to success is the early breeding of bees, and stocks should be stimulated to induce them to increase, with as little labour on their part as is possible. On fine mild days it is natural for them to seek for provision from such sources as may be open to them, and as in their search many (being aged and worn) will succumb to the influences of cold it will be well to take care that the object of their search may be found near home and in places sheltered from cold and piercing winds. Syrup should be given by slow degrees, con- tinuously, by the bottle and feeding-stage to all stocks that are not thoroughly well supplied with stores within their hives, and artificial pollen should be offered ad libitum in every sheltered corner. Stocks that are heavy with honey should have a portion of it unsealed as often as convenient each day, not that the bees may be simply saved the trouble of unsealing it, but because they cannot resist the temptation to remove it to other quarters; treating it, in fact, as if it were newly-found treasure, and becoming as excited over it as if they had never seen it before. It would be well that the un- sealing should be commenced as near to the brood-nest as possible, that the circumjacent cells may be emptied and room given for in- creased oviposition by the queen. To such stocks the giving of syrup would be an evil, as the bees would encumber the cells with it and prevent the possibility of the increase so much to be desired; and it will be found suffi- ciently stimulative to unseal their cells, and keep up an outside supply of pea-Hour, or some other substitute for natural pollen. The spring stimulation of colonies is as im- porta
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