164 THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



This year more forcibly than ever demonstrated to us the 

 folly of ttyiiag fe?^uil9vUP:,x? faster than the weather con- 



ditions will periiiit. Tile" . j^ees seem to know when it is safe to 

 breed up. We fed with Alexander feeders, we spread brood as 

 rapidly as we dared (warranted by past experience), and all in 

 vain ; some colonies that were not touched did fully as well as those 

 with which we took most pains. Again, we noted with joy, that 

 hives fullest of stores, so full, in fact, that we wondered what the 

 bees could do with it all, built up most rapidly, and were most 

 ready for the supers. Hereafter we shall build up in the fall, do all 

 our stimulative feeding in the fall, get hives overflowing with bees 

 and ''chock full" of honey, and then trust to Dame Nature to give 

 us rousing colonies in time for Orange Bloom. We believe she can 

 and will do it ! Of course, we are now speaking of conditions here, 

 at the home yard. Over at the east coast, things are different ; it 

 seems no trouble there to have colonies build up early. We attri- 

 bute it to the more constant succession of little stimulative sources 

 of honey, vines, shrubs and flowers, as well as trees, all in and about 

 and through the hammocks. We now have some colonies there 

 that fill three and even four stories with bees, and are ready for 

 any crop, no matter from what source it may come. We have 

 learned by experience that the only colonies that pay to keep, are 

 the rousing colonies. If you can not keep your colonies full of 

 bees, you might as well go out of the apicultural work. For weak 

 colonies are the rock on which many a bee man (so-called) has 

 made shipwreck. — E. G. B. 



r.,^ Early, ^s. we,. ]ia%w}iepther^^^ fi^fe ^ „§ixV or seven 



frames of brood in body^^.Q|^oujr,i^ye& (depend of 



season), we go to every Hive with tnat number of frames of brood, 

 and Mil; onie or, better; tw0;:Ci"^mes of .bropd^ preferably that- which is 

 capped,r and set -thes^ frames iri , ai?^_^upper full-depth super, placing, 

 the empty combs or frames of foundation from super, in ^pla^c^^rglj 

 those lifted. Then we close hives, and again, in a week or so, go 

 over tjiem again,. AftCljiep^^atjUti^, qp?|'?Vii9Ji/'. The freguen^cy<)f this 

 W.ill J)e' determinedi^ J)jy ,l;jie. fit?e^^|Ji j|^f li^p,," ^to.c(L^,^g;^^^j^eaj:,)ierrCo^ 

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si(%^;^:fpp jt|mpted; ^^^!^|ri^ ^gj^ oJpfvg^ft^^^Cp^^S^^rp^. 



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frames too early; ana^then when a cold snap came, we woul4^hfi 



