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I then take a pail having' a spout, and 

 pour in the feed, being- careful to have 

 the hive set level. When the feeder is 

 full I lay a block of 2x4 across the 

 feeder where I have poured in the 

 syrup, and the job is done. The odor 

 of the warm syrup will rise up in the 

 combs, and the bees will at once find 

 the feed, and clean out a feeder full in 

 3n minutes. 



If you want to feed in the fall for 

 wintering, put two or three feeders 

 under the hive, in the same way, and 

 g-ive them all they will require in one 

 da}'. Of course, in the fall, you must 

 feed much thicker syrup than in the 

 spring-. 



If you have the syrup handj' in the 

 yard you can feed 200 colonies in less 

 than an hour, and not kill the bees, or 

 lose any heat from the hive. I have 

 fed tons of syrup in this way, and have 

 never had one colony robbed. I would 

 advise you to leave the feeders under 

 the hives all summer, as they are not 

 in the wa3', and when, from any cause, 



the bees cannot get honey from the 

 flowers, you can easily g-ive them a 

 little syrup; and many times save their 

 brood, which I have seen them destroy 

 in larg-e quantities during cold, wet 

 spells of weather. 



This loss of brood is a sad sight for 

 a bee-keeper, especially when he wants 

 strong colonies backed up with hives 

 full of maturing brood, so I repeat, 

 leave the feeders under the hive all 

 summer, and when the cold wet spells 

 do come, give them a little syrup. A 

 very little will many times save their 

 brood, and the bees will g-o for the 

 flowers with a rush as soon as the 

 weather warms up a little — much 

 faster than if they had lost their bi-ood. 



Don't think for a moment that you 

 are going to get something for nothing; 

 if you do you will be sorely disap- 

 pointed. It is the same with bee- 

 keeping as everything else, "Eternal 

 \ngilance is the price of success." 



Delanson, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1904. 



Tlie Staccessfcl MaMim^ of 



BY M. A. GILL. 



EDITOR Review— Thinking that per- 

 haps my season's experience with 

 "forced swarming" mig-ht be of inter- 

 est to some of j'our readers, I will g-ive 

 it. 



SHOOK-SWARMING MORE SATISFACTORY 

 THAN WATCHING FOR SWARMS. 



Some writers have said that forced 

 swarming- is so much work that we 

 must look for something else. While 

 it is a fact that to run a number of 

 out-apiaries by the forced swarming- 

 method, does call for a lot of work, yet, 



to me, it brings the least possible 

 amount of work, worry, and expense. 

 What is there more trying to the nerves 

 than to be compelled to watch along- 

 the rows of hives in an apiary, and 

 wonder if this one will swarm today, 

 and why that one did not swarm yester- 

 day, etc.? Isn't it behind the spirit 

 of the age for afull grown man to stand 

 around all day practicing the old, 

 mythical methods, and "wondering if 

 the bees will swarm?" Why not open 

 the hives and see if they are going to; 

 why not swarm them; and if not, then 



