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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



mer, " published by E, Whitman 

 of Baltimore, Md., in which we find 

 some of the writings of Chas. Lake 

 of Baltimore, Md . We are pleased 

 to notice that friend Lake is doing 

 so much to advance beekeeping in 

 the south ; his efforts are commend- 

 able and his zeal might be imitated 

 by those in other localities to great 

 advantage to aiiiculture. We most 

 heartily wish him success in his 

 efforts. 



We have just added to our ex- 

 change list that instructive and 

 valuable authority on poultry rais- 

 ing, the '■' Poultry World, " and as 

 usual find it brimful -of informa- 

 tion. 



We understand that our friends 

 held a most interesting and in- 

 structive convention at Flint, 

 Mich., but we have not received 

 the reports as yet. 



QUESTIONS AND AN S WEB 8. 



QUESTION BY EDITOU. 



QurrK frequently there are persons 

 who allow winter to come upon them 

 before they have furnished their bees 

 witli sufficient winter stores, and it is 

 quite interestmjf and important to 

 know whether such colonies can be 

 successfully wintered by supplying 

 them, during winter, with eitlier syrup, 

 or honey or by placing cakes of sugar 

 over the frames. 



Have you had any experience in such 

 cases, and what advice would you give? 

 Have you had experience with winter- 

 ing in this way? If so, please explain 

 your experiments, and the results. If 

 you have used cakes of sugar, please 

 state how they were made. 



ANSWKR BY J. K. POND, JR. 



In answer to the above question, I 

 ill say that I always make my winter 



preparations in ample season, and to 

 that end begin as early as September 

 1, to arrange the brood chambers. At 

 two or three difl'erent times I have 

 transft-rred late, leaving only four to 

 six poiuids of stores in the hive. In 

 those instances I fed cakes of sugar 

 candy. I packed the bees on live or six 

 frames of comb, leaving a space of 

 three-fourths to one inch between tops 

 of frames and covering mat. I fed 

 candy made somewhat after the "Good" 

 piinciple, of powdered sugar and 

 honey, and laid about one pound at a 

 time on the frames, renewing as often 

 as consumed. I was surprised at the 

 small amount consumed, only seven or 

 eight pounds being used by a strong 

 colony. 



Mr. H. Scovell, of Columbus, Kansas, 

 Editor of Kansas Reekee[)er, informs 

 me, that for three or four winters past, 

 he has successfully tried the experi- 

 ment of putting several stocks in 

 November, upon frames of comb en- 

 tirely emptied of honey; he fed them 

 entirely with sugar syrup, in propor- 

 tion of twenty pounds of sugar to the 

 gallon of water, thoroughly dissolved. 

 Every colony so treated came through 

 all right, and without any trouble from 

 dysentery. He fed every day two or 

 three oz. of syrup, and never saw colo- 

 nies look better in the spring. He ex- 

 perimented with fourteen colonies one 

 season without loss, and firmly believes 

 it is tlte way to winter. His bees were 

 kept on summer stands. He is of 

 opinion that bees can be more safely 

 and economically wintered in the above 

 way than by any other, and that it 

 would require on an average only about 

 two hours per day to feed from seventy- 

 live to one hundred colonies. 



I advise feeding sugar candy made 

 of powdered sugar rubbed into pure 

 honey till a stiff cake is made, and the 

 feeding about one pound at a time to a 

 colony moulded in cakes two or three 

 inches square and one-half inch thick. 

 My experience has been limited, cover- 

 ing only three winters and only three or 

 four colonies. 



Foxboro, Nov. 24, 1883. 



ANSWER BY J. HASBROUCK. 



Yes, I've had experience with starv- 

 ing bees. The locations in which I 

 have kept them for the last ten years 

 have been excellently calculated to get 



