CHAPTER XIX 



FEEDING 



"TTTHEN we speak of feeding bees we would 

 not be understood as advocating the 

 feeding of bees with sugar syrup in order to have 

 it stored in the combs and sold as honey, as 

 such a practice is dishonest, and certain to 

 bring the honey-producer into conflict with 

 the pure food laws; but rather that feeding 

 which from time to time is necessary, such as 

 feeding the bees to supply them with sufficient 

 stores to carry them over the winter, or to 

 stimulate brood-rearing in the early spring, or 

 when given to a hive to encourage them to rear 

 queens outside of the season of the natural 

 honey flow; and under these conditions feed- 

 ing is both legitimate and important. 



Sometimes in the early spring, a colony or 

 two will be found to have come out of winter 

 quarters in a much-depleted condition, and 



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