Show essential for success that bees have honey every owner of bees should open the hives early in the spring and assure himself that the necessary stores are available for maintaining the bees until blooming time when they can gather their own food pollen and nectar in the field ohp the bees must have at least two or three frames of good sealed honey in the live at fill all times in order to be protected agal against rist starvation an abundance of good honey enhances the excessive brood rearing in early summer and late spring this essential cannot bo be overlooked if the hive is to be strong enough to malse make large quantities of honey it if the honey stores are rather short in the early spring the bees will delay brood rearing until they have had time to gather sufficient stores from the he blooms this precaution on the part of the bees will naturally decrease tho the size ot the etive and colony will be cons considerably d weakened and will not develop to full strength by the time of the main honey flow |