. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. 52 BEES FOE PLEASURE AND PEOFIT. should be bored in the cap of the bottle, and a square hole should be cut in the quilt about an inch smaller than the block, to which it should be nailed. About a quarter of a pint of syrup should be placed in the feeder every night, but as the spring advances the quantity may be increased to half a Fig. 34.—Stimulative Feeder. Great care must he taken to cover up the feeder very warmly, so that no heat may escape
. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. 52 BEES FOE PLEASURE AND PEOFIT. should be bored in the cap of the bottle, and a square hole should be cut in the quilt about an inch smaller than the block, to which it should be nailed. About a quarter of a pint of syrup should be placed in the feeder every night, but as the spring advances the quantity may be increased to half a Fig. 34.—Stimulative Feeder. Great care must he taken to cover up the feeder very warmly, so that no heat may escape from the hive. The progress that a stock thus stimulated will make in five or six weeks is amazing. The syrup used for stimulation should be thin, made with 3 lbs. of sugar to a quart of water. Supposing that at the beginning of March a hive still has abundance of stores left over from the winter, instead of feeding such a hive, we may with a sharp knife tincap some of the honey on the outer combs with great advantage ; the bees will then carry the honey to the brood nest and the effect will be to stimulate brood rearing : a good patch of honey should be unsealed on a warm day about once a week, but care must be taken to commence feeding with syrup before the bees run at all short of stores, otherwise a serious cheek will be given to the production of brood, as the far-sighted bees, foreseeing a scarcity of food, will refuse to add to the number of their population when the means of supporting them runs low. Spreading the Brood. When the bees appear daily getting stronger from the increasing quantities of brood hatching out, we may " spread. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Samson, George Gordon. London, C. Lockwood and son
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