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Reversing Brood Chambers Inspect the brood chamber. The top hive body (Fig. 20) or super will be filled with brood and bees in early March. The bottom hive body will contain frames of empty comb. Remove all the equipment down to the bottom board. Place the brood chamber (super or hive body) filled with brood on the <bottom board. Place the empty brood chamber on top of the filled brood chamber. Reverse the positions in two weeks when the queen is in the top brood chamber laying eggs. Remove the entrance reducer after Easter. Feeding a Colony Mix 6½-7 pounds of granulated sugar in 1¾ quarts of hot tap water. Dissolve the sugar. Do not boil. Using a small frame nail, punch 12-15 holes in the center of a friction top pail. Fill the pail with the sugar syrup and close the lid. Invert the pail of sugar syrup over the opening (Fig. 23) in the inner cover (inside an empty super). Place the outer cover over the super to close the hive. Stimulative Feeding Mix a one-to-one sugar solution using two quarts of sugar to two quarts of hot tap water. Dissolve the sugar. Feed this sugar solution 10 the bees in early March and April. Begin this feeding when you reverse the brood chamber in the first two weeks of March. |
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