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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAju. 



Keeping Sugrar Syrwp IJngranu- 

 lated in the Combs. 



Query 948. — 1. What will keep sugar 

 syrup from granulating in the combs ? 



2. If mixing honey is the best, what is next 

 best, providing no honey is to be had ?— Colo. 



I don't know. — Eugene Secoe. 



Use a little tartaric acid.— Dadant & 

 Son. 



1. Mixing honey. 2. I don't know.— 

 W. G. Laerabee. 



1. "I don't know." 2. "I don't 

 know."— Jas. a. Stone. 



1. Twenty-five per cent, of honey. 2. 

 Tartaric acid.— B. Taylor. 



1. I don't know. 2. Use granulated 

 sugar syrup. — I. M. Hambaugh. 



1. I don't know. 2. Honey has been 

 my best remedy.— S. I. Freeborn. 



1. We mix honey with the syrup. 2. 

 Make the syrup with the percolator.— 

 E. France. 



1. Plenty of water, 2, I prefer hard 

 cakes of sugar for winter use. — Emerson 

 T. Abbott. 



1. One-tenth part in bulk of honey 

 added to syrup while hot. 2. Buy some 

 extracted honey.— G. M. Doolittle. 



1. Tartaric acid ; but I don't think 

 such doctored syrup is good for the bees. 

 2. Granulated sugar.— J. P. H. Brown. 



1. Plenty of water, and feed early 

 enough for bees to thicken it. Honey is 

 good, and so is tartaric acid. — P. H. El- 

 wood. 



1. I've tried many things, but they 

 have been failures in my hands. 2. I 

 would try percolating, and report. — Mrs. 

 L. Harrison. 



Feeding the syrup quite thin during 

 warm weather. If one-half honey is 

 added it is as good as the best honey.— 

 C. H. Dibbern. 



1. It is said a little honey mixed with 

 it. 2. Tartaric acid— an even teaspoon- 

 ful to 15 pounds of syrup. I have had 

 no experience in this line. — Mrs. J. N. 

 Heater. 



I have had no trouble. 1 pour boiling 

 water on the granulated sugar, stir until 

 all is dissolved, and feed warm. If you 

 boil the syrup, it is liable to granulate. 

 — H. D. Cutting. 



1. Mixing JC honey is good. 2. I am 

 inclined to the opinion that if the syrup 

 is thin— say half sugar and half water — 

 the bees will ripen it as much as they do 

 nectar. — C. C. Miller. 



1. Adding tartaric acid or cream of 

 tartar with the syrup. 2. As you vir- 

 tually answer your first question with 

 the second, I will say, use the acids. — 

 Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



1. I don't know certainly. Many 

 methods have been given from time to 

 time, but as I have never fed sugar for 

 winter stores, I am unable to give a 

 positive answer. — J. E. Pond. 



Mixing honey is the best, but I have 

 had no trouble from granulation when 

 well boiled, using a piece of tartaric acid 

 the size of a hickory nut to each 10 

 pounds of sugar. — J. A. Geeen. 



If you will make the syrup quite thin 

 — simply dissolve the sugar in hot water 

 — and let it set in a warm place for two 

 or three days before you feed It to the 

 bees, it will not granulate to hurt any- 

 thing.— G. W. Demaree. 



One-third honey, or use of tartaric 

 acid. I presume percolating syrup J^ 

 sugar and % water would notcrystallize. 

 The bees take it so dilute that It is more 

 fully digested, and that is what keeps it 

 from granulation. — A. J. Cook. 



There may be something in the way 

 the syrup is made. I never had any 

 trouble with granulating In the combs, 

 though I never used anything to prevent 

 it; soldo not know whether honey or 

 tartaric acid would be the better. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



1. Do not use granulated sugar — cof- 

 fee A Is better. Have the syrup toler- 

 ably thin, not less than a pint of water 

 to two pounds of sugar. I have had no 

 trouble with the feed granulating. It Is 

 better not to feed very rapidly, and to 

 do it early. 2. I have fed a mixed feed. 

 — M. Mahin. 



There is no sure remedy for the gran- 

 ulation of sugar in the combs ; but when 

 feeding becomes necessary (it is an evil 

 at best), and th^re is no honey to be 

 spared, I would fall back upon the best 

 "A" sugar. It answers the purpose, 

 and will sometimes save a colony. In 

 preparing the syrup, be careful not to 

 scorch the mixture— It is surely fatal to 



