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VOL VL FLINT, MICHIGAN, NOV. 10, 1893 NO. 



AV'ork at IVIicliigaii's 



Experimental 



-A-piary. 



E. L. TATLOB. APIARIST. 

 AN EXPEEIMENT IN FEEDING BACK. 



Hungry fates ! 

 Where went those other hundred weights ? 

 Siiddenly retreating "' up the spout ? " 

 Like a babble wlien its time is out ? 



HT the end of 

 the white clo- 

 ver honey season, 

 finding I had a 

 large number of 

 unfinished sec- 

 tions on hand, as 

 well as honey to 

 extract, I planned 

 to make an ex- 

 periment in feed- 

 inff back extract- 

 ed honey to se- 

 cure the completion of the sections. The 

 experiment was begun about the last week 

 in .July and was continued for about four 

 weeks. This was too long a time for the 

 amount of work done. This is to be ac- 

 counted for partly by the weather during 

 August which was characterized by unusually 

 cool nights and partly by the fact that some 

 of the colonies used were not so strong as 

 they should have been. I also think that the 

 feeders used were partly to blame. They 

 were Heddon feeders brought from the 



Agricultural College. It may be they were 

 not properly made, at all events when I 

 came to feed for winter I found I could feed 

 half a dozen with a tin pan to one with one 

 of those feeders. 



The only preparation of the colonies to be 

 used was, where they were not already con- 

 fined to one section of the Heddon hive, to 

 so confine them by removing the extra sec- 

 tions of the hive containing the least brood. 







en I — 

 3C O 

 IOC I -a >: l; 1 



*>■ 00 3c ^ h- 1-" ; 



Weight of 

 sections put 

 on. 



Amount fed. 



w I gcc-jjSSSo I Amount 

 '^1 =?'r'^*"r'T^^ I removed. 



CO OO +- 2; 0-- CI OC 



Gain. 



oi *. m iji cu syi OS I ±'er Cent, or 

 ^'^''"^^*- I gainofam't 

 fed. 



cc t-^ zc K, oz io r^ 



ic oi *- p oc -J ^ cc Wt of hive at 

 Kjoccc dcv:,!- eginniHg. 



§i:f:«Sg?g Wt of hive 





at end. 



Gain in wt. 

 of hive. 



Ijoss in wt. 

 of hive. 



It is hardly necessary to say that after this 

 the cases of sections to be furnished were 

 pnt upon the brood chambers as needed and 



