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1. Yes, in very cold localities. 2. I 

 have used standard A sugar for feeding, 

 with good results in wintering. I prefer 

 the granulated, as it makes more syrup, 

 pound for pound, than the coffee A 

 sugar. I think there is no difference, 

 but I never used light brown sugar for 

 wintering. — G. L. Tinker. 



1. Yes, and in most, if not all cases, 

 no special provision for ventilation is 

 necessary. 2. It is not safe to feed 

 brown sugar for winter. "Standard A" 

 would probably do if pure, but it is often 

 adulterated. Granulated is best for 

 winter stores. For spring feeding the 

 others will do. — J. A. Green. 



1. I should think so, providing there 

 was no dampness about the cave or cel- 

 lar. I would put in two 8-inch venti- 

 lating pipes — one on each side of the 

 room. 2. Standard A sugar has always 

 answered very well with me. Granu- 

 lated will do — I would prefer it to light 

 brown ; but A is the "standard." — Will 

 M. Barnum. 



1. I have no experience along this 

 line. My bees winter in their summer 

 homes. 2. I used to feed coffee "A" 

 when I had to feed sugar to save my 

 bees. The standard " A " that I used 

 to buy was white and pure. I would not 

 use the pale yellow article. Perhaps 

 there is not a pound of pxire sugar on 

 our markets. Best granulated is the 

 safest. — G. W. Demaree. 



1. Yes! and no! It all depends upon 

 conditions that are not named. Some 

 caves and out-door cellars with the ven- 

 tilation you mention, would do very 

 well, and others would kill all the bees 

 put into them. 2. You are mistaken in 

 saying that granulated sugar cannot be 

 adulterated. Much of it is. I regard a 

 good article of A coffee sugar as super- 

 ior to any granulated sugar. It does 

 not granulate in the cells. — M. Mahin. 



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Coiiiments on tlie California Conyention. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY PROF. A. J. COOK. 



The recent California State conven- 

 tion was one of the best bee-meetings I 

 ever attended. The hall was crowded 

 all the time — a thing we do not often see 

 at our National meetings in the East. 

 Nor was the quality inferior to the 

 quantity. Such men as Martin, Brod- 

 beck, Mclntyre, Woodbury, Corey, Wil- 

 kins, etc., are enough to make a rousing 

 bee-convention were they not inspired 

 by numbers. Give them the inspiration 

 of a large gathering of eager, intelligent 

 bee-keepers, and you can well imagine 

 what a feast we had. 



CALIFORNIA A GREAT BEE-COUNTRY. 



Beyond question, California is by all 

 odds the greatest apiarian district in the 

 United States, if not in the world. From 

 statistics gathered at the meeting, from 

 several who had been in the actual work 

 for years, we learned that while an en- 

 tire failure was rare, they could count 

 good years for two in three, and that a 

 good year meant about 300 pounds of 

 honey per colony for the whole apiary. 

 With such facts before us, we may read- 

 ily see that this is the very "Garden of 

 Eden " for the bee-keeper, or perhaps I 

 would better say, the very "Promised 

 Land." Here the business warrants at- 

 tention, interest, enthusiasm — not sim- 

 ply for its fascination, but for the 

 money that is in it. So the industry 

 must flourish more and more here. 



BEES AND FRUIT-GROWING. 



One of the questions discussed was 

 the relation of ))ees to fruit-growing. I 

 put all the emphasis I could upon the 

 TRUTH, that bees are a very important 

 factor in Pomology, which is a tremen- 

 dous industry here. Now the fruit-men 

 look askance at their neighboring bee- 

 keepers, and some of them even op- 



