. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1914. 129 American Hae Jonrnal article I decided that bees could thrive on damp sugar in southern Texas il they throve on it in Rhode Island. J then set about to make mating boxes with feeders in them suitable for the feeding of damp sugar. Here is a drawing of the mating box that I made with the feeder shown on the left-hand side. This feeder holds about one cup of sugar. The amber sugar that I found in the stores here was very dry; I thought too dry to answer the purpose. The only damp sugar that I could get was sticky, heavy and very dark. W
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1914. 129 American Hae Jonrnal article I decided that bees could thrive on damp sugar in southern Texas il they throve on it in Rhode Island. J then set about to make mating boxes with feeders in them suitable for the feeding of damp sugar. Here is a drawing of the mating box that I made with the feeder shown on the left-hand side. This feeder holds about one cup of sugar. The amber sugar that I found in the stores here was very dry; I thought too dry to answer the purpose. The only damp sugar that I could get was sticky, heavy and very dark. With this sugar I did my experimenting. I brought bees home from an out-yard; I shook the bees off the combs into an empty box, covered with wire-cloth, with ripe queen-cells. I placed the mating boxes, filled the feeders with the damp sugar, and at dark I put in the queen-cells and the bees. To get the bees into the boxes I poured w iter over them, shook them down into the bottom of the box and dipped them out with a tea-cup. By morning they had settled down in their new homes and were at work on the sugar n the feeders I suppose the bees get to dissolve the sugar, for they conveil it into a thick syrup and store it in the combs. As soon as the bees needed room a frame containing a starter of found i- tion was given to them. They built comb as they needed room for th ir stores and eggs, as soon astheqie as went to laying. It was surely a good sight to look into the boxes and s e the bees building comb, a young q i ?. n laying her first eggs, and bees diggi ig away in the sugar. Here is one ess ;n- tial point to remember, always l;t the bees have a little extra room, as t will keep them from absconding. .\ e ;der full of sugar will hold the bees as I ng as they have a little surplus room but if they have not the room to exo ind, they will soon have all of the little combs filled with eggs, and they will leavi. There are several reasons why damp sugar is an idealfeed
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