. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ftoifg the jBe. QUERIES AND REPLIES. In heading this paragraph I do not seek to usurp our Editor's function. The replies are merely given in answer to pertinent queries put recently by Mr. Crawshaw. On page 198 he asks what do I really mean ? What was in my mind was a system of watering bees carried out by a friend. He heats the water for his bees, runs it out pretty warm through a pipe into a. contrivance made on the same plan as is used in distilleries when "cooling" the liquid produce of the steeps. It runs in at one end of th
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ftoifg the jBe. QUERIES AND REPLIES. In heading this paragraph I do not seek to usurp our Editor's function. The replies are merely given in answer to pertinent queries put recently by Mr. Crawshaw. On page 198 he asks what do I really mean ? What was in my mind was a system of watering bees carried out by a friend. He heats the water for his bees, runs it out pretty warm through a pipe into a. contrivance made on the same plan as is used in distilleries when "cooling" the liquid produce of the steeps. It runs in at one end of the cooler, winds about from side to side, thus making the journey not only a lengthy one, but also one occupying considerable time, until at last it finds its way to a new receptacle after becoming cold. On page 508 he asks what do I mean by the "seeds of granulation"? My idea is comb once occupied with granu- lated honey, even after a fairly complete cleaning by bees or bee-keeper, or both, may still retain the "germs" of granula- tion. Brood combs filled with syrup may contain a remnant of the inciting cause. I think I have found it so. Also sections not completed one. year with some honey in the cells, and used as bait sections next season, will "breed" granulation. Again, feeders not properly cleaned when syrup has candied during the feeding process may, almost inevitably will, act as an incentive to granulation at some subse- quent period, even when the food lias been well and properly made by the bee- keeper, and that not by any incipient cause in the syrup, but from the "seeds " present. He queries also whether the thick syrup I advocated—2^1bs. of solids to one of liquid—would not be certain to granulate, in spite of all precautions, from its own inherent over-consistency. I do not think so, with care. It has again and again been advised by both Dr. Miller and Mr. E. Root, and if they find it a good and efficient food, why shou
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