. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 336 AMERICAN BEE VARIOUS ISOTES A^D COMMBXXS. BY DR. C. C. MILLER. Feeding Bees for Winter.—The answers to the question about feeding (page 270) leave one somewhat mixed up as to what is best to do. Some advise to feed as soon as possible, even in August, while others advise to wait as long as possible in hopes fall flowers may yet yield. I can't say for other localities, but in northern Illinois I feel safer not to put off feeding very late. Sometimes the bees gather as late as the last of September, but oftener not. I think I would rather
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 336 AMERICAN BEE VARIOUS ISOTES A^D COMMBXXS. BY DR. C. C. MILLER. Feeding Bees for Winter.—The answers to the question about feeding (page 270) leave one somewhat mixed up as to what is best to do. Some advise to feed as soon as possible, even in August, while others advise to wait as long as possible in hopes fall flowers may yet yield. I can't say for other localities, but in northern Illinois I feel safer not to put off feeding very late. Sometimes the bees gather as late as the last of September, but oftener not. I think I would rather run the risk of taking something away if they are too full, than to wait till late with the risk of having freezing weather catch me with empty combs or unsealed stores. I generally fed as fast as the bees would take it, but I'm getting to believe I'd rather have the feed so thin that the bees shall take some time at it. If the theory is correct, that formic acid is furnished by the bees through the circulation, then it is likely that the bees will have a better chance by having the feed thin as nectar. Somewhat Surprised.—Hello ! what's this ? Page 272 opens up on some- thing that doesn't look just like the " Old Reliable," but it says American Bee Journal at the top, so it must be all right. Don't know for certain just how I do like it. When any of my old friends come out in a new rig, I must get used to it before I really like it. Makes a very pretty page, even if it does look like a stranger, so I suppose I'll get used to it, and as there are just eight pages of that kind thrown in the middle of the number, itsets me to wondering whether possibly Miss Godfreys- has been giving free reign to a woman's taste. Brace and Burr Combs.—Bro. Doolittle, what are you thinking of, to come out as you do on page 272 at this late day ? The time for it was when such earn- est struggles were being made to get rid of brace-combs, and not after the struggle is pretty much ove
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