. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. IffTISH. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stranqeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 293. Vol. XVI.] FEBRUARY 2, 1888. [Published Weekly.] ffitixtaxml, Delias, #r. PRACTICAL WORK IN THE APIABT. This month is usually considered one in which the bees should be kept quiet, and the bee-keeper will do well to do so when they are well protected from rain, snow, or cold. Some of our friends may not, however, have taken the necessary precautions in the autumn to pack their bees up snugly or provide them w
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. IffTISH. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stranqeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 293. Vol. XVI.] FEBRUARY 2, 1888. [Published Weekly.] ffitixtaxml, Delias, #r. PRACTICAL WORK IN THE APIABT. This month is usually considered one in which the bees should be kept quiet, and the bee-keeper will do well to do so when they are well protected from rain, snow, or cold. Some of our friends may not, however, have taken the necessary precautions in the autumn to pack their bees up snugly or provide them with sufficient food, and therefore a few words of caution may not be out of place. In many hives brood-raising will have commenced, and it is sucli colonies more than any others that would be likely to suffer most from the cold weather which we may yet have. Every precaution should be taken to prevent the escape of heat from the hives, for heat is necessary to existence, and if it escape the bees must generate more, at a great cost to themselves, or die; and if this heat-producing process is too severely taxed they exhaust themselves, wear out, or become diseased. Should the bees be short of food from any cause, that in a liquid state should on no account be given them. A cake of candy pushed in under the quilt is the best method of feeding now. The candy is made in the following way:—Put into a tin saucepan about three- quarters of a pint of water, and let it boil, then while boiling gradually stir into it six lbs. of white lump- sugar ; keep it boiling until it is quite clear and every particle of sugar dissolved. During the whole time the boiling syrup should be stirred to prevent its burning, as burnt sugar is not only injurious to the bees, but its presence in the syrup will prevent the syrup from granu- lating or setting hard, and no amount of boiling would produce candy such as we require for bees' food. If the syrup is boiled too much the candy will be too hard and th
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