. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April j, 1885.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 115- talcing- shares in a concern which is based upon sound commercial principles, and is calculated to be of immense benefit both to bee-keepers and the public generally.—J. LingeN-SeaGKB, Hon. Hoc. Herts I am very glad to see that the British Honey Company is virtually formed. It will be of the greatest possible advantage, both to the honey producer and to the public. To the former as affording a ready market for his honey, and to the latter as protecting it against the adulterated stuff wh
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April j, 1885.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 115- talcing- shares in a concern which is based upon sound commercial principles, and is calculated to be of immense benefit both to bee-keepers and the public generally.—J. LingeN-SeaGKB, Hon. Hoc. Herts I am very glad to see that the British Honey Company is virtually formed. It will be of the greatest possible advantage, both to the honey producer and to the public. To the former as affording a ready market for his honey, and to the latter as protecting it against the adulterated stuff which has been imported from America and else- where in such large quantities of late years, and has brought such discredit upon the honey industry generally. I hope tliat all bee-keepers will give their best support to the British Honey Company, and not leave it to a few to bear all the burden and expense, whilst they reap the benefits of it.—Honeycomb. A NEW SYRUP FEEDER, WHICH DISPENSES WITH SYRUP-MAKING. I do not suppose there is a single bee-keeper who would not be glad to do away with all preparation in the way of cooking or mixing sugar and water, before being placed in the feeder. I have always hoped to do away with that trouble, and at last I am pleased to be able to state that so far as my own apiaries are concerned syrup- making- is a thing of the past. As a slow feeder and powerful stimulator, I find nothing better than my dry-feeding dummy, but there are times when it is necessary to feed a colony up quickly at the end of the season, or it is desirable to obtain a large number of sealed combs for future use, and then syrup- feeding must be resorted to; but how to do it so that both sugar and cold water could be placed at once into the feeder, remained an unsolved problem until in the spring of 1834 1 designed a feeder for supplying some 40 lbs. at one time to be placed under the hive, and which received the sugar and water in the usual pro- portion without the sl
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