John Horton wrote

> Trevor,
> Hev you found this Cloake method to be reliable? Especially during heavy 
> flows or alternately during a nectar dearth? Do you feed them at times.

The Cloake method, in my experience, is certainly suitable during heavy 
flows.  It is a matter of supering up.  The only problem is, if you do not 
super up early enough, the cells end up with burr comb all around them.  We 
have just finished now and this year I took 8 or 9 supers of honey of many 
of the cell builders.  We have top feeders on the cell builders so if there 
is a dearth, or better still just before the dearth, we feed granular sugar. 
I do this because if they do not need it then it does not ferment.  Some 
times I also open feed sugar syrup if things are off.  I have used patties 
as a protein source but this year, towards the end, used open feeding of 
soya flour.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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