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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAI^. 



feeding of syrup as soon as the weather 

 would permit, they have prospered, and 

 are coming on excellently. 



FEEDING BEES. 



I have tried putting syrup in empty 

 combs, and hanging in the hive, but 

 this is entirely too much trouble. The 

 easiest and quickest way to feed with 

 no special expense for feeders, is to set 

 three or four cheap wooden dishes — 

 such as grocers have to put butter in — 

 upon the top of the brood-frames, put in 

 some grass or weeds for " foot logs " for 

 the bees, and pour in the syrup. 



Ordinary porcelain bowls will do if 

 you are sure to press the grass down, 

 well, and put in enough for it to fill up 

 and hang over somewhat, for the little 

 " ladies " to climb by. On pouring in a 

 second time, use care not to drown the 

 bees in the bottom of the dishes or bowls. 



SYRUP FOB FEEDING. 



My experience is that to put a lot of 

 granulated white sugar into a tin bucket, 

 and pour in enough warm water to dis- 

 solve it when stirred, makes it a first- 

 class syrup for bees. I have been feed- 

 ing considerable for nearly a year, and 

 I have never known of its granulating 

 yet. If I am in a hurry, I do not even 

 heat thewater. 



THIS SEASON — PROSPECTS, ETC. 



We had ten days of good weather dur- 

 ing fruit-bloom, from about the 1st to 

 the 10th of April ; then cold, rainy, 

 windy, and but little chance for work. 

 Two days now bees have done some 

 good work. Locust is beginning to 

 bloom, and I think poplar also, but I 

 have not been to the woods to investi- 

 gate. I have had only one swarm so 

 far — on the 18th. It weighed 4Ja 

 pounds. 



Several cold days coming on, I had to 

 feed. On examination this evening I 

 found 3 colonies in destitute circum- 

 stances, and ministered to their wants. 



I am a bachelor, and somewhat bash- 

 ful in the presence of ladies, but I must 

 thank the editor for assigning me to the 

 care of Mrs. Atchley. Many perhaps 

 will recall the fact that I was given an 

 introduction to "Sunny Southland" 

 when I wrote some months since. 



Lewis K. Smith. 



Gainesboro, Tenn., April 25, 189;3. 



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Honey an Animal or Vegetable 

 Substance. 



Quei-y 874.— Is honey an animal or veg- 

 etable substance ?— W. D. 



Both. — S. I. Pbeebobn. 



Vegetable. — M. Mahin. 



Vegetable — E. France. 



Vegetable. — P. H. Elwood. 



Vegetable. — Dadant & Son. 



I don't know. — C. C. Miller. 



Vegetable. — J. H. Labbabee. 



Vegetable. — Will M. Barnum. 



Vegetable. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



First, vegetable. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



Vegetable, and 7iot ''digested nectar." 

 — J. P. H. Brown. 



It certainly isn't animal, unless bees 

 make honey. — Eugene Secor. 



Largely vegetable, with a small trace 

 of animal substance. — H. D. Cutting. 



The nectar used in producing honey is 

 from a vegetable source. — G. M. Doolit- 



TLE. 



Vegetable. It is the product of a 

 plant, gathered by a bee. — Mrs. L. Hab- 



BXSON. 



In so far as it is gathered from 

 flowers, of course it is vegetable. — R. L. 

 Tayloe. • 



We will believe it is vegetable until 

 we have evidence to the contrary. — J as. 

 A. Stone. 



A vegetable substance, more or les 

 modified by animal secretions and diges 

 tive processes. — James A. Grken. 



Honey is the inspissated nectar of 

 flowers, and though gathered by bees its 

 origin is vegetable. — G. L. Tinkeb. 



Like the sugar which comes from the 

 starch in our own digestion, I should 

 call it a digested vegetable. — A. J. Cook. 



If honey is digested nectar, I guess it's 

 an animal substance. When I have 

 digested food it becomes most thoroughly 

 animal. — A. B. Mason. 



