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Never, I feel safe in saying, is this feed I sliould like to asli Mr. Miller what 

 stored far away from the center of the be would do if he found that his 100 

 nest. It follows that the bees in win- colonies in late September were nearly 

 ter consume the sugar syrup rather destitute of stores? Would he buy 

 than the scant supply of honey which $120 worth or more of honey and 

 more out of their reach. When feed it at the risk of foul-brood, or 

 spring comes there is but little of the would he buy $75 worth or more of 

 syrup left, and most of this is con- pure sugar and feed it with no danger 

 sumed in brood-rearing. I believe, in of disease? Will Mr. Miller kindly 

 fact, that it rarely happens that any answer? 

 of this syrup, if fed in the fall, ever Norwich, Conn., Nov. 7, 1905. 



survives the demand of spring breed- 



ing. If any does survive and is in Mr. MiUer's Response. 



the way of the increasing brood-nest, mv. Latham very kindly submitted 

 where is it put? It is invariably the foregoing to me for a reply in the 

 moved toward the corners of the game issue. In paragraph three all 

 frames, but only .iust beyond the nest, the items are the same in honey pro- 

 It suffers possibly several movings. duction as in sugar feeding except 

 Sometimes a very prolific queen will cost of sugar and labor of feeding, 

 drive it at one move to the very cor- The latter is more than offset by ab- 

 ners and remote portions of the frames sence of "culls," and the sugar as 

 where it will be sealed over anew, "honey" will pav a substantial profit. 

 All bee-keepers have seen honey thus Regarding loss of bee vitality, if it is 

 moved, and all know, who know any- remembered that bees have to sleep 

 thing about it, that with a brood-nest or rest much as do other animals, and 

 overstocked with honey this moving ^re treated accordinglv. the loss of 

 wUl even extend into the sections yjtaiitv is no greater in svnip feeding 

 under the impulse lent by the presence timn from a corresponding heavy nec- 

 of a prolific young queen. tar flow. In speaking of continuity 



Unfortunately for Mr. Miller's side of feeding, I assumed that these rest- 

 of the argument the conditions which j^o. periods were undei^tood. Bvi- 

 bring about the moving of honey into aenUv I was mistaken. In the para- 

 the brood-nest are rarely, if ever, „^.^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ _^^^^.^^ ^j^^ ^^^^ j^ 

 present after a fall when sugar syrup ^,^1, gtated except that he omits the 

 has been fed. Average queens will f^pt^j. ^^ ^1^^ ,5ee-keeper sometimes 

 not cause any of the syrup to be ^^oving the filled combs so the stored 

 moved into the sections while prolific g^^^p j^ ^^^ alwavs located as stated, 

 queens will cause it al to be con- ^^^d hence the svrup is on hand at 

 sumed Who does not know that a ^i.^ time of the honev flow, 

 fall of feeding is generally followed Regarding fruit bloom. Were you 

 by a spring of anxiety lest the bees standing behind me, Mr. I... when I 

 have too little store to last till the ^^.^^^ through that mill? Our ex- 

 new honey comes? periences are identical. But I would 

 I freely admit that to stuff the brood- call attention to the flavor of fruit 

 nest with 40 pounds of sugar syrup bloom honey. It is a-s if flavored with 

 might cause contaminated honey. If buter almonds and a very little of it 

 most bee-keepers are like me they ^yjn i^i^e or submerge other flavors 

 stop with 15. pounds of syrup, simply unless thev be verv pronounced, hence 

 because of the expense of such ex- would thoroughly hide sugar, 

 travagant feeding. Tj^^ moving of stores by the bees 

 No, we cannot be absolutely certain varies in a hundred ways and from 

 that our honey is pure if we allow any as many causes. Sometimes it is 

 syrup to be fed; but can we be thus from below to above, from center to 

 cock-sure even though we abhor the sides, from one side to the other, or 

 sugar barrel? As long as there are the reverse of all these. Sometimes 

 candy shops, and as long as neighbors the age of the queen seems to govern, 

 may accidentally expose some other sometimes the weather and sometimes 

 sweet than honey, how are we to the reason is too obscure even to guess 

 know that our product is absolutely at. Here is a specific case which oc- 

 pure? cured this fall. An eight-frame hive 



