. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Feeding Bees for Stimulative Purposes. BT DR. E. GALLUP. I did not fully answer Mr. Deacon's inquiry, and as there Is another who requests me to answer the question when to feed, and how to feed for stimulating purposes, I will try to give my views more fully. Bees are always ready to breed up at any season, either winter or summer, when conditions are favorable in this climate. I say " always," but I am mistaken in one case. I had one stood Italian colony last fall that lay perfectly dor- mant through December and January last winter. I exa
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Feeding Bees for Stimulative Purposes. BT DR. E. GALLUP. I did not fully answer Mr. Deacon's inquiry, and as there Is another who requests me to answer the question when to feed, and how to feed for stimulating purposes, I will try to give my views more fully. Bees are always ready to breed up at any season, either winter or summer, when conditions are favorable in this climate. I say " always," but I am mistaken in one case. I had one stood Italian colony last fall that lay perfectly dor- mant through December and January last winter. I exam- ined them twice during that time, for I could not understand was profitable to stimulate. I had one super of 12 frauies full of sealed honey, so I gave each colony a frame of this honey, and stimulated them by breaking the cappings by pressing the flat side of a case-knife against the comb and drawing it across the comb. This is a very good way of stim- ulating. It was so cool and windy that the bees would have actually stood still. Again, we stimulate at any time during the summer If there are only four or five days that the bees cannot work. We do this by raising the front end of the hive and pouring diluted honey in at the entrance, just at night. It requires only a very little, providing they have old honey in the hive. Many times in the East bees are about ready to swarm, and there come eight or more days of cool, rainy weather, and the bees will tear down queen-cells, and even kill oflf their drones. A little stimulation at such a time will keep all things moving right along. I never allow a colony or nucleus to become dis- couraged for lack of a little stimulation ; even iu this climate I consider it poor policy. If we hive a new swarm, and the weather is not just right for the secretion of nectar, we always feed freely, as it re- quires plenty in order to build comb at any time in the Apiary of Masters Qeorge and Wayne Robey, of Neosho Co., Kansas. why there
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