Re: stimulative spring feeding

"Tim Whittingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I read in Ted Hooper's book that nobody feeds in the spring to stimulate
> laying because it has been shown to be a waste of time. I read on the
> internet plenty of people feeding in the spring to get the numbers of
> foragers up high in time for the honey flow. What is the truth?
> 
> Tim w

It depends on your honey flows.
Here without stimulative feeding there is no surplus of honey from
maple through fruit bloom. Feeding easily doubles my yield and allows
time in the late summer and fall to deal with miticides. Feeding about
25lbs sugar worth of syrup will allow you to make a split or pull a
strong nuc, in fact along with requeening pulling a split and putting
drawn comb in helps  deter swarming.


Where does Ted Hooper live?

Southeastern CT USA