CAKDY FOR BEES. 



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CARPET GRASS 



CARPET GRASS AND BLOSSOMS— LIFE SIZE. 



At this stage, remove the syrup from the 

 stove. It cau now be pom-ed into greased 

 Shallow tin pans, and when cooled hard it 

 will have a crystalline rock-candy appear- 

 ance if the work has been done right. 



These cakes may be placed crosswise 

 on the brood-frames and covered with old 

 carpeting if in cool or cold weather. 



Where a larger quantity of candy is to be 

 given at a time, it is advisable to take a com- 

 mon brood-frame of the old Langstrothtype, 

 without any spacers on it, and lay it on a 

 greased sheet of tin which can be obtained 

 at any tin-shop. As the hot syrup begins to 

 cool pom- it into the frame until level full, 

 and allow the candy to set. This may then 

 be hung in the brood-nest like a comb of 

 sealed stores. For winter feeding, nothing 

 is better except sealed stores. 



If preferred, stir the syrup while cooking, 

 causing it to grain. When poured into 

 pans, as before directed, it will be hard 

 and white. Some prefer to have then- candy 

 made this way as it is less sticky, and there- 

 fore pleasanter to handle. But the one 

 objection to the granulated candy is that it 

 forms into granules; and as the bees take it 

 up, these granules drop down on the hive- 

 bottom to a greater or less extent, and are 

 carried out and wasted. All things consid- 

 ered, we prefer hard crj stalline candy. 



If you don"t care to make the candy your- 

 self, place these directions before your 



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candy-man and instruct him to heat the 

 candy to SIO*^ F. by his candy-thermometer, /o'^ 

 Cawi/on; — Whoever makes the candy i'^ 

 should clearly understand that if the mix- '^<^ • '' 

 ture is scorched, even the slightest, it will ;^:^ 

 make unfit food for spiing or winter feed-'^ 

 ing. When the syrup is cooked nearly - '^^ 

 enough, there is great danger of burning, 

 and it is then that the greatest care should be 

 exercised. 



CANS rOR HONEY. See Extracted 

 Honey. 

 CARNIOLANS.— See Bees. 

 CARFET GRASS. Carpet grass 

 [Lippw nodiflora) is one of the best honey- 

 1 plants known, but has not come to the front 

 I yet, in bee-keeping circles. In Central Cal- 

 i ifornia it produces abundantly, and has 

 been reported in the Bermudas, where it is 

 the leading honey-plant, and also in the 

 West Indies and Texas. It is known as 

 a "sand -binder," so that, in Florida, it 

 would be a boon for this pm-pose alone, but 

 it is a splendid yielder of good honey besides. 

 Stock will eat it, and it holds up its head 

 when every thing else is bm-ned up by sun 

 heat. The term carpet grass, or, better, car- 

 pet weed, suits it admirably, for it covers the 

 ground like a carpet. It grows only a few 

 inches high, as might be supposed from its 

 creeping habit. It is one of those plants 

 which it will pay bee-keepers to study. 



