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The brood would be increased some by 

 feeding, but it would not pay. In case 

 of no fall flow, it would be very unwise. 

 I doubt if it ever pays to practice stimu- 

 lative feeding. — A. J. Cook. 



It will not pay, unless you arQ abso- 

 lutely sure of a fall crop; but we would 

 deem it safer not to feed in summer, as 

 it incites robbing more than at other 

 times of the year. — Dadant & Son. 



If there is such a dearth of pasturage 

 as to stop brood-rearing, or nearly so, 

 and a prospect of quite a flow in October, 

 it would likely pay to stimulate in Au- 

 gust or September. — S. I. Freeborn. 



I do not feed my bees at any time 

 when they have plenty of honey — it is a 

 piece of foolishness. Should you wish 

 to stimulate for a special purpose, un- 

 cap their honey. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



It might pay in such a case to feed. 

 Try feeding W of the apiary, and one 

 year will tell you whether this }i does 

 enough better than the others to recom- 

 pense for work and feed. — G. M. Doo- 



LITTLE. 



If I only knew who you are, where you 

 live, how long your honey-flow lasted, 

 what it consists o", etc., then I would 

 know more about iv. I don't know any- 

 thing about October honey-flows. — H. D. 

 Cutting. 



In the case mentioned, it will be found 

 of no use to feed for siimulation. They 

 will build up fast enough where they 

 have ample stores. Fefiding at the time 

 mentioned, will be apt to cause swarm- 

 ing. — J. E. Pond. 



I think that would depend upon the 

 length of the October flow, and the 

 quantity gathered through the months 

 of August and September. You could 

 demonstrate by experiment, which would 

 be the more profitable. — Eugene Secor. 



That depends. The apiarish must 

 judge for himself whether sufficient 

 brood-rearing is going on. In many 

 cases it would pay to feed, remembering 

 that it will not pay to create a lot of bees 

 that come too late to be producers. — J. 

 A. Green. 



It has been my experience that if they 

 had plenty of stores they are always 

 ready for the fall flow. I have had colo- 

 nies with so much honey in the brood- 

 chamber that the queen had no room, so 

 I have never made it a point to feed un- 

 less compelled to do so, to save the col- 

 ony. — Jas. a. Stone. 



If the bees have plenty of stores to 

 last them from the early to the late flow, 

 it is a useless expense to feed them in 



the meantime. But if their stores fail, 

 as is sometimes the case in my locality 

 (Kentucky), it pays to feed to keep 

 breeding going until the fall flow com- 

 mences. — G. W. Demaree. 



September feeding would not answer 

 for a flow that liegan the first of Octo- 

 ber. Feeding depends very much upon 

 the price that may be obtained for the 

 honey. If I had to sell honey at 5 or 6 

 cents per pound, I do not think I would 

 feed much, if the bees had plenty of 

 stores. — Emerson T. Abbott. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1894. 

 Apr. 4 5.— Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. 

 E. J. Atchley, Sec, Beeville, Tex. 



Apr. 23. — Venang-Q Co., at Franklin, Pa. 



C. S. Pizer, Sec. Franklin, Pa. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



P RES.— Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph, Mo. 



Vice-Pres.— O. L. Hershiser Bufitalo, N. Y. 



Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York... Chicago, Ills. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor.. Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gen'l. Manager— T. G. Newman. Chicago, 111. 

 147 South Western Avenue. 



Capons and Caponizing:, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls ; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have it. 

 Price, postpaid, 30 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Journal one year, for $1.10. 



Honey as food aii<l Medicine is 



just the thing to help sell honey, as it shows 

 the various ways in which honey may be 

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