. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 331. Another View of the Running Feeder. as fast as possible, putting- in tz\.'o pails of sugar for each of water. Syrup is stirred continually until sugar is thoroughly dissolved, when the fire is turned out and we begin to feed. The sugar, of course, has cooled the syrup somewhat, but it is still hot. WEIGHIITG THE SYBUP FOR WINTER FEEB. The scales are now set up beside the tank and the weighing is started. \\'e use four pails, and one person does the weighing while another carries to the A^ard, so there are always two pails ins
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 331. Another View of the Running Feeder. as fast as possible, putting- in tz\.'o pails of sugar for each of water. Syrup is stirred continually until sugar is thoroughly dissolved, when the fire is turned out and we begin to feed. The sugar, of course, has cooled the syrup somewhat, but it is still hot. WEIGHIITG THE SYBUP FOR WINTER FEEB. The scales are now set up beside the tank and the weighing is started. \\'e use four pails, and one person does the weighing while another carries to the A^ard, so there are always two pails inside and there is no time lost. I now go to the yard and begin at Hive Xo. 1, taking off the coAcr and placing feeder on top. Pour in the hot syrup, bciiii; sure to sl^iH a little doz^ii through the feeder on to the bees, which immediately starts them running up into the feeder. Put cover back on top of feeder and pass on to Hive No. '?, where same thing is repeated. Thus you will see that it is an easy matter for three persons to feed 100 colonies in three or four hours after the weighing is done, feeders placed, and syrup properly mixed. In weighing up the syrup we allow one pound for shrinkage for each five pounds fed. The shrinkage will be greater than that, but we find that when colonies are fed as above that they have sufficient stores to last them through until after fruit bloom, which usually comes here the latter part of ^lay. WHEN THE FEESINa BE DONE. We want all feeding done by the last of September, and do not want bees disturbed after this until time to move them home or put into Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original National Bee-keepers' Association. [Flint, Mich. : s. n.
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