1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



331 



bees to alight vipou, as well as to help 

 in keeping weeds and grass down. I 

 believe they will work equally well 

 with others, and would advise all who 

 winter bees out door to try a few this 

 winter and see if I am not right. 

 Borodino, N. Y. 



Feeding. 



BY CHAS. H. THIES. 



Feeding, when pertaining to bees is 

 a thing I would like to get around, 

 yet most bee-keepers find it necessary 

 and profitable at times. I have tried 

 stimulative feeding pretty thoroughly, 

 and have decided that usually is does 

 not pay. Queen breeders, however, 

 find it necessary when no honey is 

 coming in. But this is not the feed- 

 ing I now wish to speak of ; feeding 

 for winter stores is what 1 have ref- 

 erence to. This should rarely be nec- 

 essary with an expert bee-keeper in 

 anything like an ordinary locality ; 

 yet it occasionally happens, especially 

 where the territory is overstocked, or 

 where a lot of nuclei are united. 



The best feeder that I have ever 

 tried in feeding for winter stores, or 

 when a quantity is wanted fed, is the 

 Miller feeder. With a few dozen of 

 these feeders the Jwork can soon be 

 completed. Another good feeder is 

 the Mason fruit jar inverted in an 

 upper story over the brood frames. 



Feeding, I will admit, should all 

 have been done long ago, but better 

 feed late than never, Ed. Jolley, in 

 the November number of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Keeper, speaks of feeding 

 bees in cold weather, which is a very 

 good method, and one that I have of- 

 ten made use of ; but every bee-keep- 

 er hasn't the section honey, and to 



pay from 15 to 20 cents per pound for 

 it is to expensive. 



Upon examining your bees some 

 nice warm day during February should 

 you find that certain colonies are 

 short of stores, a better way to feed 

 them is to get some one pound jelly 

 tumblers and punch a few small holes 

 in the tin cover. After making a 

 syrup of the best white sugar you can 

 get, fill two or three of these tumblers 

 with it — or extracted honey if you 

 have it ; then cut a slit in the cloth 

 cover over the cluster of bees in the 

 hive, and invert a tumbler over the 

 slit, and put on an upper story packed 

 full of nice dry fine leaves, or some 

 substitute, and your bees will be all 

 right. The feed will be just where it 

 is wanted during a severe cold period. 



The better way is always to have all 

 feeding done during warm weather, 

 say during September ; but sometimes 

 we fail in this, as I have with my 

 nuclei this fall, other business having 

 prevented me in feeding at the pro- 

 per time, and I am to day (Nov. 18) 

 still feeding, and some of the united 

 nuclei are building comb ; while we 

 are having freezing weather most 

 every night. 



Steeleville, 111. 



Protecting Combs, when not 

 in use, from the Bee Moth. 



BY MRS. L. HARRISON. 



In my early days in bee-keeping I 

 did much woi'k and took a great deal 

 of pains to keep combs from being 

 destroyed by the ravages of the bee- 

 moth, yet in many instances I failed. 

 If the combs were forgotten for a few 

 weeks, they would be completely rid- 

 dled. The way I manage them now I 



