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would cut the cappings on the outside 

 combs, and let the bees carry the honey 

 and place it in the combs around the 

 brood. 2. The best time to feed is when 

 the weather is warm enough for the bees 

 to fly every day. 3. I prefer a couple 

 of oval wooden butter-dishes that can 

 be bought for about one cent each. — 

 Emerson T. Abbott. 



1. I think brood can be stimulated by 

 judicial feeding, though the bees have 

 abundance of stores. 2. Feed in the 

 evening when the weather is good. 

 Early feeding in spring had better be 

 done at the top of the hive. 3. A tin 

 can with a hole in its bottom, through 

 which is placed a wire nail. — C. H. Dib- 



BEBN. 



1. If bees have more honey than they 

 can consume, I consider it surplus and 

 remove it. You can uncap honey and it 

 will stimulate the bees as well as feed- 

 ing. 2. The best time to stimulate is 

 when warm weather has come. 3. The 

 most simple and easiest way that I have 

 found to feed is to give frames of honey, 

 or sugar syrup, at nightfall. — Mrs. Jen- 

 nie Atchley. 



1. Where a colony has plenty of stores 

 and are moderately strong, they will do 

 quite well to be left to feed themselves. 

 I am firmly of the belief that they will 

 increase some faster if fed in the open 

 air. 2. The best time would be when 

 the season is far enough advanced so 

 that bees can fly with safety, and are of 

 their own accord commencing to rear 

 brood. 3. If you are feeding comb 

 honey, uncap and hang in the hives, 

 spreading well where it is easily accessi- 

 ble to the bees. If extracted, put in 

 shallow dishes — hive-covers will do if 

 tight ; put in floats to keep the bees 

 from getting drowned or daubed. — S. I. 

 Freeborn. 



1. Plenty of honey in the hive is cer- 

 tainly a favorable condition for early 

 brood-rearing. 2. Commence about the 

 last of March. 3. Bruise the cappings 

 of the sealed honey. Utilize the par- 

 tially filled combs, etc., left over last 

 fall ; or pour in the syrup upon the clus- 

 ter and combs. This answer has refer- 

 ence to the climate of Utah. In more 

 Northern States, it is a question with me 

 if it is advisable to induce early brood- 

 rearing. Another point — if the feeding 

 is overdone, the bees will fill up the cells 

 and retard the very object you seek. It 

 also brings about a sort of abnormal ex- 

 citement — some of the bees may leave 

 the hive, and if the day is cold, " they 

 will never come back." Go carefully. — 

 Will M. Barnum. 



1. There is no question about stimula- 

 tive feeding in spring increasing the 

 amount of brood reared even where the 

 colony has plenty of stores. Still, pro- 

 tection has a great deal to do with the 

 extent of brood-rearing, and the facts 

 laid down in my book upon this subject 

 are strictly correct. 2. The best time 

 to feed is any time when the bees can 

 fly. 3. Cutting's entrance feeder is the 

 best for stimulative feeding, but if the 

 stores are very short, I prefer the butter- 

 dish feeders over the brood-frames, and 

 give 3 pints at a time of thin syrup un- 

 til about 9 pints are given. The feeders 

 are enclosed in a rim made to fit the top 

 of the hive, and 2}4 inches deep. The 

 cover of the hive is put over it. The 

 narrow sliced-wood butter-dishes are 

 best, but must be made water-tight at 

 the ends with melted wax, using a short 

 camel's-hair brush for the purpose. — G. 

 L. Tinker. 



Bee-Pasturage— Depenience of Success. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY DR. J. p. H. BROWN. 



When we take a retrospective glance 

 at what bee-keeping was 50 years ago, 

 and then follow it up to the present, no 

 one can say that it has not made gigan- 

 tic strides up the hill of science. In- 

 stead of the old log-gum and the straw 

 skep, we have now movable frame hives 

 which enable the bee-keeper to secure 

 the honey, if he chooses, in nice, beauti- 

 ful comb, or he can sling it out free from 

 extraneous substances, by means of a 

 machine. Experiment stations are now 

 established not only to test the latest 

 apiarian appliances, but to ascertain the 

 most profitable application of apiarian 

 skill and science. 



The knowledge of the economy of the 

 hive and the natural history of the 

 honey-bee is far in advance of what it 

 was half a century ago ; in fact, it has 

 attained a degree of thoroughness that 



