. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July. 1915. 237 times during the flow. A little judicious feeding is done early in spring, u^ing old tough combs and pouring thin honey in a small stream on the cells; the honey will all run in, and if placed in the super in the evening, it is cared for before morning,and no robbing occurs. This, with keeping them well quilted until hot weather, stimulates brood-rearing. Another point not practiced by many beekeepers is this: Plenty of water right at home for your bees. A wash- tub nearly filled with w;)ter, and an inch of cork chips on top, that you
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July. 1915. 237 times during the flow. A little judicious feeding is done early in spring, u^ing old tough combs and pouring thin honey in a small stream on the cells; the honey will all run in, and if placed in the super in the evening, it is cared for before morning,and no robbing occurs. This, with keeping them well quilted until hot weather, stimulates brood-rearing. Another point not practiced by many beekeepers is this: Plenty of water right at home for your bees. A wash- tub nearly filled with w;)ter, and an inch of cork chips on top, that you can get from your fruit men, chips that come from Italy in kegs of grapes. Your bees do not have to go half a mile for a cold drink, but have it right in the yard; no chilled bees lost in their long flight, and not a drowned bee. The tub will be brown with bees on a hot day. and they learn the place, just the same as stock go to the water tank to drink. I know we save thou- sands of bees by my method. Try it and see. By keeping our " think tank" busy, and when puzzled trying to study out a remedy, we often run against some good things. Thus I hive found it in the 40 years of my beekeeping. Grand Meadow, Minn. [Mr. Greening says: "You rather doubt my plan, giving as a reason 'too much room before honey llow.'" Beg pardon, you are putting things together that I didn't put together, and that don't belong together. I said, " It seems there might be a little too much of a good thing by giving so much room over the brood nest for the bees to keep warm before tbe honey-flow. That had no bearing on the case as to any difference between sections and extracted honey, and certainly it was no objection to the plan in general as a prevention of swarming, for the more room the less inclination to swarming. The only point in the case was that with so much space overhead to keep warm the bees would not build up quite so rapidly. The only thing upon which "doubt&qu
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