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you are in iguorauce. If you should feed honey that had come 

 from a colony affected with foul brood, it might mean the ruin of all 

 vour bees. 



In any case, you are not restricted entirely to honey for feeding. 

 Sugar will do, if properly prepared. Indeed, after bee® get to 

 flying in the spring, almost anything they will take in the line 

 of sweets may be fed. Maple syrup will do. All things considered, 

 perhaps the best substitute for honey is the best granulated sugar. 

 It may be fed in the form of candy or of syrup, 



CANDY FOR BEES. 



Put into a tin eauce-pan a little boiling water and set it on top 

 of the etove, but not so that the fire can directly touch the pan. Stir 

 into this granulated sugar — in "the ftroportion of seven pounds of 

 sugar to three pints of water and let it come to a boil. Let it con- 

 tinue to boil, dropping a little of it occasionally into cold water, and 

 when threads of it thus dropped break off brittle, take it off. Con- 

 tinue to stir it, and pour into shallow pans that have been greased, 

 so that the cakes of candy will be an inch thick or less. These cakes 

 may be laid directly over the frames in the hive, and then covered 

 over with cloths, or in eiome w^ay so that the heat of the cluster will 

 not escape. 



Another Avay is to put the candy into an empty brood-frame. Put 

 a flat board on a level table, lay a piece of paper on the board, and 

 on this put your frame, fastening it there with two or three nails, 

 or by tying wire around board and frame. When your candy is 

 cooked enough, take it off the stove and keep stirring it until it be- 

 comes so thick it will barely run, and then pour it into the frame. 

 When it is entirely cool, it may be hung in the hive just like a frame 

 of honey. 



If you have some extracted honey, you can make a candy that is 

 preferred, and it is less trouble to make. Take a very small quan- 

 tity of the honey, heat it to less than boiling, and stir the honey 

 and powdered sugar together to make a dough. Keep adding sugar 

 and knead the same as you w^ould bread dough, just as long as it 

 will take any more sugar. Let it stand a day or two, and then you 

 can knead in some more sugar. Cakes of this an inch or so thick 

 may be laid on the brood-frames. 



SYRUP FOR FEEDING. 



Have on the stove a ves.sel with boiling water. Into this pour 

 elowly five pounds of granulated sugar for every quart of water. 

 Stir as you pour it in, for burnt sugar is very bad for bees. Cook 



