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The glucose and thermometer mentioned are the same as used by the candy 

 makers. It is likely that all wholesale grocerymen will handle this glucose, so 

 all one will have to do is to ask his grocer to order for him glucose, the same 

 as is used by the confectioner for making candy. Glucose used to be very cheap, 

 two or three cents a pound, but now since it has gotten into the hands of the 

 "trust" it will likely cost in small quantities about as much as granulated sugar. 



The candy thermometer mentioned tests from to 250° and is all glass. They 

 are rather expensive but a necessity, as candy must be heated to just such a 

 temperature or it will be too hard as the bees cannot take it if heated too high, 

 and so soft that it will run and "daub" the bees if not heated high enough. 



If you do not know what cream tartar is, ask }our wife. — Townsend.] 



^^^E all of us have some particular line in our pursuit that we 

 Vik/ are most interested in. Some of us prefer to produce comb 

 honey, others extracted honey, while others prefer queen 

 rearing. I have made my work (thirty years) in the line of queen 

 rearing and, incidentally, winter feed for bees. Of late I have been 

 able to rear queens here in Xew England for seven months in the 

 same colony. 



As regards to soft candy for winter feed for bees, most bee- 

 keepers will remember that last winter, 1911-'12, was one of short 

 stores in the hives for winter, and I was in the same boat, only I 

 was a little further from shore than most bee-keepers on account of 

 sickness in my home for quite a little while — that of my father, who 

 died November 12th, 1911. On account of this sickness I could not 

 feed my bees — about fifty colonies. It was now too late to feed 

 sugar syrup. I knew that in England they feed a soft candy feed 

 (so-called), and I sent to Gammager & Co., England, after a frame 

 of this feed. It cost me about $3.50, which included the duty and 

 postage for about four pounds, flicn it came too late. 



I consulted a candymaker here and experimented with sugar 

 and cream tartar, sugar glucose and cream tartar. A record was 

 kept of all formulas and degree of heat when the desired tempera- 

 ture was secured. I had about twenty colonies at my home yard 

 that I fed this feed to and watched results. I saved all of my bees 

 at my home yard but three colonies. 



I exhibited at the A\'orcester Co. Bee-Keepers' Association last 

 March. (191-2). a box of this feed, and told the members just how 1 

 had made it. giving them to understand that it was still an experi- 

 ment. Some of the members made and used some of it and reported 

 the same results as I had had. 



At first I boiled to So'?"", tested with a regular candy testing 

 thermometer, but experience proved that this degree was not high 

 enough. I added more glucose and boiled to a higher degree, and 

 this time it worked perfectly. The result was I saved my bees. 1 

 could refer you to Mr. A. A. Byard, West Chesterfield, N. H., who 

 also saved his bees, and has since fed a good many pounds of it, 

 and he wrote me last week. (January 15th. 'lo). that he "was win- 

 tering four colonies on "Fuller's"" soft candv. with uo other food, and 



