Gleanings in bee culture . llons at atime and call for more latei. Of recentyears little comb honey has been producedin my apiary because of the swarming pro-pensities thereby developed; but anotheryear I shall be compelled to return in ameasure to such production because of in-sistent demand for fancy comb products. Savannah, Ga. FEEDING BACK EXTRACTED HONEY FORFINISHING SECTIONS The Requirements for Success, such as the Ques-tion of Bees and Queen, Weather, Feeders, etc. BY E. S. MILES Now and then there is a beekeeper whoreports success in feeding back; but per-haps the majority do not find
Gleanings in bee culture . llons at atime and call for more latei. Of recentyears little comb honey has been producedin my apiary because of the swarming pro-pensities thereby developed; but anotheryear I shall be compelled to return in ameasure to such production because of in-sistent demand for fancy comb products. Savannah, Ga. FEEDING BACK EXTRACTED HONEY FORFINISHING SECTIONS The Requirements for Success, such as the Ques-tion of Bees and Queen, Weather, Feeders, etc. BY E. S. MILES Now and then there is a beekeeper whoreports success in feeding back; but per-haps the majority do not find that the planworks well at first. I myself was among thelatter class; but having studied the theoryof it thoroughly I was able to see some ofthe causes of failure, and after several trialswas able to eliminate most of them, so thatnow I consider the finishing of some of thesection honey by feeding back a part of theregiilar program each summer. As there is a scarcity of section honeynow, as compared with the supply of ex-. One of Scholls shallow-story divisible-broodcliam-ber hives. A veritable stack of bulk conibhoney.—See Beekeepiiuj in the Soutliwe-st. Iracted, it would seem that every thing tend-ing toward helping the producer of comblioney would be in order. As to whether itpays to feed back, I can not say think it has paid me, yet it might not payanother. It would depend upon how he ismanaging his bees, number of stands, howmuch his help costs, and what his time isworth in other work. As to feeding for the purpose of gettingsections finished, the following points in theorder named as to importance must be con-sidered. 1. Character of bees and condition ofcolony to be used. 2. Kind of weather to be expected for thepurj^ose. 3. Arrangement of sections in supers;supers on hives; kind and arrangement offeeders. 4. Preparation of feed and method offeeding. The right kind of bees is absolutely neces-sary as a foundation to success. As nearlyas I can tell, a colo
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