| Show WINTER STORES FOR HONEY BEE jf much importance to consider both quality and quantity of food supply FAVORED most common cause of poor colonies in spring la poverty directly due to negligence oh the part of the beekeeper prepared by the united states department of agriculture the stores given to the bees from the end of one season to the beginning df the next are of the first importance it Is necessary to consider both the quality and the quantity of these stores quality of stores As has been stated jt Is fortunate ahat in both of the zones chere cellar n Is or might be practiced the natural stores usually are good honeys such as those from white and aalke clovers sweet clover alfalfa alf alfi wild raspberry buckwheat esy and sr aay raf y VMS isa t wast t V isy k t it Is easy to handle bees when you know how lowherd are fine stores for winter ethll honeys from basswood hearts ease asters goldenrod and most of the other fall flowers are desirable it Is especially important during the period when the beai are in the celair that the stores shall be of the very finest quality and it Is therefore the practice of many good beekeepers bee keepers to feed each colony five pounds or more of made of granulated sugar late in the fall nil brood rearing has ceased this in that the bees will have for their use during the period of confinement in the cellar stores alch will pot bring about the condition known as dysentery in general it may be stated that honeys from sources and dark honeys except buckwheat are to be avoided honeys are highly injurious and in all cases a here lucli stores are present granulated sugar should be fed quantity of stores from the end of one honey season to the beginning of next a good colony of bees mill need fully 45 rounds 0 honey when alie bees are wintered in alie cellar it Is usual not to hae all of this honey in the one hive body in which they anro wintered jt Is a good practice to have at least 20 pounds within this hive although 15 pounds hlll be fate it Is ly imperative however that the remainder of the 45 pounds shall be available to be given to the bees soon after they are taken from the cellar the most common cause of poor col onles in the spring Is poverty directly due to neglect on the part of alie beekeeper A good beekeeper sees to it that at no time when brood Is feeding feeing reared do his bees have less than 15 pounds of stores in the hive and the full amount of V pounds often will all be used and Is needed if the colonies are to come to full strength n time for the gathering of the full crop this amount Is al ays augmented by ioney from spring lowers fop 45 pounds of honey Is not enough to bring a colony to arll strength in time for the main honey flow |
