. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BEK JOURNAL been prepared ready for it, a very good plan is to line a deep pie-dish with brown paper and pour it into this. The paper will remain and prevent the candy from sticking to the coverings when on the hive. It is best to place it on the center of the frames over the ordinary feed-hole. It may happen that in the fall the bees are only a few pounds short of the necessary amount of stores (25 to 30 pounds) to carry them through the winter, in which case a cake of candy may be put on the hive when packing them, to make up the defic
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BEK JOURNAL been prepared ready for it, a very good plan is to line a deep pie-dish with brown paper and pour it into this. The paper will remain and prevent the candy from sticking to the coverings when on the hive. It is best to place it on the center of the frames over the ordinary feed-hole. It may happen that in the fall the bees are only a few pounds short of the necessary amount of stores (25 to 30 pounds) to carry them through the winter, in which case a cake of candy may be put on the hive when packing them, to make up the deficiency with- out troubling to feed syrup at all. Candy may also be given to bees in the spring, and it is only suitable food until they begin to fly freely, when thin syrup may be substituted, if they are short of stores. Candy is a very safe food early in the year, as it will not start robbing, as syrup sometimes does, which may re- sult in the balling and loss of queens. Some beekeepers mix pea-flour or other pollen substitute with the candy used for spring feeding with good re- sults, in districts where natural pollen is not sufficiently abundant. Several spoonfuls of pea-flour are stirred in just before the candy is ready to pour out into the molds. Nelson, B. C. Creating a Demand for Honey BY T. P. ROBINSON. THERE are advertisements galore for the sale of honey, but only two good ways of advertising practiced by the beekeepers at large. One, whose motive is to dispose of the honey as a commodity of commerce by any legitimate means, and the other is through education as to what honey really is, its great food value, its health- giving propensities, and its care and keeping. Sales made through the first medium are usually short lived while through the latter they are of lasting benefit. There are many very intelligent peo- ple all around us who know nothing about honey. The average beekeeper has no means of finding out this great truth unless by chance he is thrown with a lar
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