In a message dated 12/09/2009 14:43:09 GMT Daylight Time,  [log in to unmask]
com writes:

Do a  'Bailey Frame change' in the spring as the colony is building up.

Can  you do this and still produce a normal crop?



Depends what you mean by 'normal'.  By feeding as recommended you may  end 
up with sugar in your honey.  Try feeding syrup with blue food dye  added 
and see what happens!
 
You should enhance your crop (without artificial feeding) if you time it  
right and the weather and flowers are favourable (this is as much a matter of 
 luck as of judgement this side of the Atlantic) as the bees will have 
nowhere  but the supers to place the incoming nectar and because the bees will 
be so much  healthier with far fewer misses in the brood pattern.
 
Try it out with controls.
 
Chris

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