. Eddy on bee-culture, and the protective bee-hive; a guide to a successful and profitable method of bee-culture; the results of many years' experience and observation in bee-keeping. DING. 31 the Bees in a variety of ways, and the principal objections to it are thefollowing : 1. There is no profit in it. No man gets the quantity ofhoney which he feeds. 2. It prevents the Bees from going abroad togather honey from the fields. 3. If the Bees are fed liberally late in thefall and early in the spring, there will be very few empty cells in whichto rear young Bees. 4. It is deceptive, because a che
. Eddy on bee-culture, and the protective bee-hive; a guide to a successful and profitable method of bee-culture; the results of many years' experience and observation in bee-keeping. DING. 31 the Bees in a variety of ways, and the principal objections to it are thefollowing : 1. There is no profit in it. No man gets the quantity ofhoney which he feeds. 2. It prevents the Bees from going abroad togather honey from the fields. 3. If the Bees are fed liberally late in thefall and early in the spring, there will be very few empty cells in whichto rear young Bees. 4. It is deceptive, because a cheap and inferiorarticle is sold for one of superior quality. 5. It results, in the processof time, in the extinction of the Bees. The feeding of Bees may bepractised with advantage whenever they are not amply supplied withwinter stores, a thing which happens to late swarms and to those fromwhich large quantities of honey have been taken. For this purpose acheap article may be used to help them through the winter. It may bedesirable to take from the Bees all the white clover honey which canbe obtained in boxes with a view to supply the Bees with a cheaperarticle. 32 THE PROTECTIVE BEE-HIVE, BY HENRY EDDY, M. D., NORTH BRIDGEWATER, MASS. \i 4 CHAPTER PEOTECTIVE BEE-HIVE. V ITS HISTORY. The history of the Protective Bee-hive is very simple, f Severalyears since its inventor found trouble from the Bee-moth. He tried avariety of hives which professed to remedy the trouble, but found theremedies served to increase rather than diminish the trouble, becauseadditional lodging and hatching places were furnished to th£ was led in these circumstances to try various expedients of his ownto remedy the evil, some of which succeeded in part, while others adding one improvement after another, as they were seen to be neces-sary, he found himself in the possession of a hive which answers thepurpose for which it is used — a hive, simple in its constru
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