Gleanings in bee culture . of these colonies anotherlump of about 5 lbs., which carried themover till fruit-bloom, and each of them builtup well with the coming of the early blos-soms. I would frequently go out among thel)ees in January and February and thrust myhand down through the shavings and feelhow large the lump was, and thus I knewwhen to give another, which I did the lastof February. Care must be taken to pack the bees goodand warm after giving the Good candy; andif this is done a hive can be opened in thedead of winter and the feed put in, if it is(juickly closed and packed according
Gleanings in bee culture . of these colonies anotherlump of about 5 lbs., which carried themover till fruit-bloom, and each of them builtup well with the coming of the early blos-soms. I would frequently go out among thel)ees in January and February and thrust myhand down through the shavings and feelhow large the lump was, and thus I knewwhen to give another, which I did the lastof February. Care must be taken to pack the bees goodand warm after giving the Good candy; andif this is done a hive can be opened in thedead of winter and the feed put in, if it is(juickly closed and packed according to theabove directions. There is no reason why any colonies shouldbe lost when discovered short of stores int reezing weather, if the above directions arei-arried out. The shortage of stores was ex-plained; and had the writer not been awayall the fall, the syrup would again have beenfed; but as it was, the midwinter feed savedthe apiary. Rye, N. Y. [For several years back we have been 98 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Jan. 15. killed the bee having a good many inquiries as to whatand how to feed colonies during winter incellar and outdoors, packed in chaff. Ouranswer has always been, give to all such,frames of sealed stores—nothing better, andnothing else anywhere near so practicable it is our practice tolay aside a lot of these when honey comes inin the season, and set them aside for emer-gency purposes for winter use. But whensuch combs are not available—or when, forany reason, the bee-keeper has not providedthem in advance—he must give them some-thing else. One can feed sugar syrup in the cellar,and the bees will takeit down just the sameas they would out-doors. What, then, isthe objection? It stirsoutdoor bees up toactivity, breaks up thewinter-nest, and, in thecase of cellared l)ees,starts an uproar thatexcites all the otherbees to a greater orless extent in the cel-lar, whether so fed ornot. The only thing,then, is to giVe themcandy in some form—so
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