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AMERICAN BEE lOUPNAI.,, 



May 22, 1902. 



that the old idea that indoor-wintered liees 

 should not be given a (light on some warm 

 daj- in midwinter, is not good practice for 

 Medina. In a normal state of health bees are 

 compelled to void their excreta at certain reg- 

 ular intervals. We linow that the.v do retain 

 them during the winter; and we linow that, 

 just as soon as the.v are set out, the first thing 

 the.v do is to spot everything in the neighbor- 

 hood. This goes to show that Nature has 

 been pent up for a long time, and seeks re- 

 lief. To give the bees a cleansing flight dur- 

 ing winter is not only rational but humane. 

 We manage to keep our bees quiet till about 

 the latter part of March. Then we set them 

 out and let them have a cleansing flight, and 

 put them back again, and then Ihey are per- 

 fectly contented — no doubt about that. — Edi- 

 tor.] — Stray Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture. 



Stimulative Feeding. 



I have been, and am still, experimenting 

 with stimulating food for bees, but I am 

 alreadv satisfied that here, at least, feeding in 

 the spring is done at a loss. Cane-sugar 

 syrup has to be " inverted " by the bees, and 

 that process calls for an expenditure of 

 vitality that old Ijees. after a winter's confine- 

 ment. can illy meet. Under normal conditions 

 — during the natural fiow of nectar — there are 

 an abundance of young bees to do such work, 

 and it is believed that they do much, if not 

 the greater part, of it. But in the early 

 spring, when stimulative feeding must be 

 done if to be of any use. there are but very 

 few young bees, and so the labor falls upon 

 the old ones. If we could afford to feed 

 honey, or honey and water, at such times, 

 would not such evils be avoided ; it may be 

 asked. Not entirely. I can not discover that 

 colonies stimulated with honey and water are 

 in one whit better condition lor the harvest 

 than are colonies left entirely alone, but hav- 

 ing plenty of honey (and pollen) left from 

 their winter supply. On the contrary, even 

 with such skill as I have acnuired in the past 

 20 and odd years, spring-stimulated colonies 

 are more often behind tlie others than ahead 

 of them. Other things being equal, I believe 

 bees winter better when they have a super- 



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