Show food supply important for success with bees As it gets warmer bees will emerge from the hive in search of pollen for brood rearing examine the hives some warm day when the bees are flying well see if there Is enough honey for their use warm weather last fall led bees to consume more than the usual amount that makes it all the more important at this time to keep plenty of food in the hive the instinct or race preservation Is so highly developed in the bees that when the food stores get low the queen stops laying this too comes at a time when the colony should rapidly be building up here Is a safe rule if the stores in tafe hive drop below 20 pounds feed honey or honey left over from last year may be used A that will not granulate may be bc made as aa follows dissolve two and a halt half parts of sugar by volume in one part of water and one tablespoonful tartaric acid to every twenty pounds of sugar care should be taken that this preparation Is not scorched and that all crystals are dissolved A good way Is to reserve at least a shallow extracting super of honey as a food chamber above each colony using this as aa a reserve supply throughout the year these facts are taken from the bee bulletin of the odilo state university |