. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. NOVEMBEI! THE COTTAGE GARDENER. asrj unccUed celk ; and tliis I will quickly show is an unansu'erahlc objection, wUate\ei- may be thought of the former. For where, let me ask, do the bees huddle together on the approach of cold weather but among the earliest'built combs, which are generally the largest 1 Of this A. M. E. 11. will speedily couviuce himself (or anybody else) if lie will, after reading this, turn up his new hives and examine them. And there tliey will remain for tlie next four or live mouths,— then they will commence the operatio
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. NOVEMBEI! THE COTTAGE GARDENER. asrj unccUed celk ; and tliis I will quickly show is an unansu'erahlc objection, wUate\ei- may be thought of the former. For where, let me ask, do the bees huddle together on the approach of cold weather but among the earliest'built combs, which are generally the largest 1 Of this A. M. E. 11. will speedily couviuce himself (or anybody else) if lie will, after reading this, turn up his new hives and examine them. And there tliey will remain for tlie next four or live mouths,— then they will commence the operations of the new year,—and then, of course, they will first clear the combs of wliatever food tliey may contain, as saving them the trouble and peiil of moving; and, be it remembered, Ihese are the very cmnhs in which A. J\{. E. R.'s honey has been stored. I conclude, therefore, that it is well at no time to feed artilicial stocks, reared according to the plan recommended by me, on pure Iwney, as being botli expensive and useless. Tlie food throughout sliould be of a nnij'urni quality ; or, if otherwise, rather ;ni;)roi'/«(/ in quality after the first fortniyht's feediuy. A. M. E. ll.'s objection'to my plan—viz., that the surplus food above the winter's consumption might be spoiled—will be removed if the stock be fed up to fifteen or sixteen pounds only, uvt weight, in October; for this will keep the bees alive tUl the folknving April or May (accordiny to the season), at wliich time a similar niixtm-e might be given them (perhaps a little less to tlieir liking than the food supplied in autumn, so that they may not be tempted to eat it in preference to tlieir stores), in quantities of half a pound per week at a time, until it was evident that honey abounded. In this way very little, if any, of tlie autumn- supplied mixture will sm-vive the spring demand of the increasing brood. As to its candying or spoiling (unless, indeed, trater is a principal iugrecUent in its composit
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