. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 17, 1921. THE BBITISH BEE JOUBNAL. 121 disconcerting in view of the statements of other undoubted experts. To mention only one of them, Mr. Simmins has for years strongly recommended dry sugar feeding, and specified brown cane Porto Eico or Barbadoes. In his book, " A Modern Bee Farm," he advocates a dummy feeder of dry sugar on one side of the- nucleus and a frame syrup feeder oa the other, for plumping stocks in spring. I have myself adopted this method with great success. I shall be glad to have your views on this system
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 17, 1921. THE BBITISH BEE JOUBNAL. 121 disconcerting in view of the statements of other undoubted experts. To mention only one of them, Mr. Simmins has for years strongly recommended dry sugar feeding, and specified brown cane Porto Eico or Barbadoes. In his book, " A Modern Bee Farm," he advocates a dummy feeder of dry sugar on one side of the- nucleus and a frame syrup feeder oa the other, for plumping stocks in spring. I have myself adopted this method with great success. I shall be glad to have your views on this system. Your expert's opinion does not seem to affect the case, as it is a question of suit- lity, not purity, that is involved. We add Yadil, Bacterol, Napthol Beta, etc., to syrup, thereby rendering it impure, but that does not make it less suitable as a bee food than if given unmedicated.—Yours faithfully, Vebnon R. Dean. Reply.—We abide by our statement. In our opinion brown sugar is not suitable for bee food at all. It may not do so much harm in spring, when the bees have plenty of opportunity for taking cleansing flights. A number of cases where brown sugar has been used for winter food have come under our notice this winter, in every instance with disastrous results. We think if " A Modern Bee Farm " is care- fully read it will be found that Mr. Sim- mins does not recommend brown sugar for winter food. On page 367 he says: " No dark moist sugars are suitable as a winter food in cold ; So far as we are concerned, we would not use other than white sugar for feeding bees at any time, unless it was absolutely unavoidable. In " Gleanings in Bee Culture " for November, 1920, the editor says, in speak- ing of feeding sugar to bees : " When we '•V ' sugar stores ' let it be understood +^at no brown sugars will answer. Some of us learned to our sorrow last winter when we could not get granulated sugar that brown sugar stores contain to
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