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that they were wintering perfectly." You would be surprised to see 

 how warm the box of candy feed would get under the packing over 

 the frames in the brood chamber. 



The formula I now use in making this soft candy is as follows : 

 Granulated sugar, 12 pounds; glucose, one and a half pounds, (not 

 syrup known as corn syrup) ; water, one and one-quarter quarts, and 

 one-fourth to one-third teaspoon of cream tartar. 



Put the water, cream tartar, and glucose together, and as soon 

 as it begins to boil, add the sugar. Stir until it reaches the boiling 

 point, hut do not stir ivliile boiling. As soon as it reaches 238 or 240" 

 by a sugar boiling thermometer, remove from the stove to cool. 

 Leave the thermometer in the syrup, and you can stir it a very little 

 while cooking, so as to keep the temperature as ez'cn as possible. 

 You may see it commence to '"cream" before it reaches the desired 

 heat. When it cools to 120 to 125^, stir or beat it, and in a short 

 time it will cream. As soon as it looks like paste or starch and is 

 thickened, it is ready to turn into the feeders. 



The feeder is made about IV/z" deep, and Ijas a 6x8" glass 

 which is used for the bottom. (It is presumed that this candy is so 

 thick that it will not run out of the feeder when the S^'^" rim is 

 simply set over the glass when filling. — Edit.) These feeders are 

 filled nearly full uf the candy. At first they were filled full, but I 

 found this to be a mistake for the reason that there should be a bee- 

 space between the feeder and the top of the brood-frame upon which 

 they rest to prevent killing bees when putting on the feeders. The 

 feed should be prepared the day before it is needed for use. The 

 feeder is placed directly over the cluster of bees, candy side down, 

 and the glass side up. One of these boxes of feed will last a col- 

 ony of bees from nine to ten weeks, sometimes longer. All you 

 have to do is to just pull back your packing and you can look 

 through the glass and see how much feed is used. When nearly 

 gone another box can be put on. The bees will all leave the empty 

 box, and it can l)e taken ofif and refilled. 



I have been criticised a number of times by local candy-makers, 

 but let me say right here that candy-makers initst have the bees to 

 experiment with in testing out their "fudge" product, etc., before 

 they know whether their sugar-glucose products will work on the 

 hive or not. I have been "through the mill" on soft candy feed. 



With my experience of over a year with this feed I think I can 

 safely say that the bees will take this feed any time of the year. 

 They will take it I am told if placed at the entrance of the hive, in 

 the bee cellar, and there has been no bad results with dysentery 

 with this candy. There is very little danger of robbing when fed 

 in summer. In winter the feed is directly over the cluster of bees, 

 the feeder itself forming a warm clustering place for the bees as the 



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