. 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 FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. Great care must be taken to cover up the feeder very warmly, so that no heat may escape from the hive. Tlie progress that a stock thus stimulated will make in five or six wrecks is amazing. The syrup used for stimulation should be thin, made with 3 lbs. of sugar to a quart of water, one tablespoonful. Fig. 34.—Stimiilative Feeder. of vinegar and half a teaspoonful of salt being added to every quart of water. A superior fo
. 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 FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. Great care must be taken to cover up the feeder very warmly, so that no heat may escape from the hive. Tlie progress that a stock thus stimulated will make in five or six wrecks is amazing. The syrup used for stimulation should be thin, made with 3 lbs. of sugar to a quart of water, one tablespoonful. Fig. 34.—Stimiilative Feeder. of vinegar and half a teaspoonful of salt being added to every quart of water. A superior form of stimulative feeder, in which the amount of syrup taken by the bees may be regulated is shown in fig. 49, page 105. 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 uncap 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 w^ith syrup before the bees run at all short of stores, otherwise a seiious check 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, G. Gordon (George Gordon). London, C. Lockwood
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