. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. Jmtpal, idftS: [No. 56. Vol. V.] DECEMBER, 1877. [Published Monthly.] (Bitxtaxxid, lloticcs, #.c. DECEMBER. During the present month the apiary should be in a state of rest, and ought to require no attention beyond that necessary in keeping the bees dry and well protected, and in preventing the choking of the narrowed entrances of their hives with snow from without, or dead bees or debris from within them. There may, however, be some who, from pressure of other business, have neglected their bees, and feeding may be necessary to enabl
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. Jmtpal, idftS: [No. 56. Vol. V.] DECEMBER, 1877. [Published Monthly.] (Bitxtaxxid, lloticcs, #.c. DECEMBER. During the present month the apiary should be in a state of rest, and ought to require no attention beyond that necessary in keeping the bees dry and well protected, and in preventing the choking of the narrowed entrances of their hives with snow from without, or dead bees or debris from within them. There may, however, be some who, from pressure of other business, have neglected their bees, and feeding may be necessary to enable them to stand against the wintry weather now due, and such bee-keepers require a caution against feeding inordinately with liquid food. All feeding ought to have been over long since, for feeding-time in its implied sense of preparing for winter has long passed, and whatever is now given to bees can only be rightly considered as intended to eke out their scanty stores to enable them to tide over the three winter months now commencing. We receive many complaints from bee-keepers who have allowed the true feeding-time to pass, that their bees, though weak in both numbers and stores, will not take the food offered to them ; but they forget that in cold weather it is impossible for them to do so, unless the food be warm when administered ; and in that case only small quantities should be given at a time, or it will become cold when in the hive, and will do mischief by absorbing heat from the bees who are already insufficient to maintain that necessary for life and health. Warm nights can scarcely be expected at the present time, but genial days will occasionally intervene, when a little warm liquid food may be administered to such as show any signs of dysentery, to stimulate them to take wing and discharge themselves; but great care should be exercised that robbing be not promoted, and for that purpose the feeding bottles should be covered closely and the entrances properly guard
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