180 THE BEE-KEEPERS* REVIEW 



January 31st and found them all O. K. February 1st gave another 

 3^ pound box of candy. They had used about a half of a box of 

 feed in 32 days, or about 1^4 pounds. February 7th, O. K. Feb- 

 ruary 13th, O. K. One box of 3^2 pounds candy used between 

 January 1st and February 13th. Four degrees below zero this 

 morning (February 13th). 



February 20th : Bees O. K., flying. Put on another box of 

 candy (making 10^ pounds to date). Handled the brood combs; 

 saw the queen. They had a patch of brood the size of a silver 

 dollar. Not a single colony dead to date. In looking over the bees 

 very carefully, I failed to find a single frame in the -IS colonies win- 

 tering on this candy that shows a single spot of dysentery. 



Later : March 4th. Mr of New Bedford, 



Mass., has lost 17 swarms this winter. Is now feeding "soft" candy 

 and has lost none since beginning this feed. 



You do not know anytliing about it, Mr. Townsend! I do not 

 want to praise it too much, but it is a Godsend to bee-keepers if 

 they only knew it. 



You ask if bees ever liquify this candy and store it in their 

 ■combs? Would say that in all of my feeding of this candy last 

 summer and this winter, no feed ivas ever found stored in the combs 

 that I was sure was from the candy fed. 



I fed some cane sugar syrup last fall, but it sometimes granu- 

 lates. From what I have seen up to date (March 1st) I should 

 prefer to put on two boxes of the "soft" candy of from 3^ pounds 

 to 3-}{i pounds each, to feeding the sugar syrup, placing them across 

 the top-bars of the brood-frames as explained heretofore. 



From observation this winter, the cluster of bees only occupy 

 one box of feed at a time. When one box is user], they move to 

 another with apparently no trouble. 



March 12th: Bees all O. K. yet. Flying the 10th and today. 

 I said the bees were all O. K. — there is one of the -19 colonies dead. 

 They had but o ounces of bees by actual weight, so could not be 

 -considered a normal colony. Then they were one of the six colonies 

 mentioned in a previous letter that were moved home in a starving 

 condition. This leaves 48 colonies, all wintering on this "soft" 

 candy. 



The colony shook on empty coml)s January 1st, is still O. K. 

 and flying today. Two days later, the 14th : Colony shook Jan- 

 uary 1st is doing fine. I guess it did them good. They have 

 "brood on both sides of one comb. Am giving them some more feed 

 in a frame, one of which I am sending you by parcel post. 



March the 19th: I wish to report that my bees are all alive 

 since my report. Examined the colony shook January 1st ; they 

 "have brood in two combs. There is now no doubt but what they 



