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Farther back from the towns, there are still good ranges to 

 be had. We are troubled more or less by foul brood, but with 

 proper care this can be kept down and is no worse here than else- 

 where. 



Hoping to hear from you again, I remain 



Very truly yours, 



R. H. BIGELOW. 



How We Do Our Feeding During Spring 



We use sugar syrup for spring feeding, use about two sugars 

 to three water and if handled when quite hot, it will spray into the 

 combs better, for, we put it direct into the combs, spraying it into 

 the cells, thus forcing out the air so the syrup will enter. One 

 would think that this would be a slow tedious job, but it is not, for 

 it requires not more than two minutes to fill a comb with syrup. 

 An avei'age L brood comb will hold about four pounds of feed, so it 

 is easy to determine the amount fed. Sugar syrup is likely not as 

 good a feed to stimulate brood rearing as honey, but it is cheaper, 

 does not cause as much robbing. Then we have some disease 

 among our bees which prohibits the feeding of honey. We have 

 not fed an ounce of liquid honey in years for fear of disease. 



Farmers' Bulletin No. 653 



The above Bulletin ''Honey and Its Use in the Home," by Caro- 

 line L. Hunt, expert in Nutrition, and Helen W. Atwater, Assistant 

 in Nutrition, office of experiment station, U. S. Department of Ag- 

 riculture, is on my desk. 



This Bulletin will likely do more to popularize honey than any 

 previously issued, providing that beekeepers take advantage of 

 this splendid chance to have them distributed among their friends 

 and customers. This bulletin has 26 pages the size of the Review, 

 and is crammed full of valuable information, just the kind you 

 would like to have your customer know. 



Besides a great array of valuable information regarding honey 

 as a food, it contains between fifty and sixty cooking receipts, simi- 

 lar to the ones that were given away by the League Fund a couple 

 of years ago, and are sold by supply houses at the present time. 



Where this bulletin is more valuable than any other published 

 before, is, it has the government stamp of approval upon it, which 

 will give your customers confidence in honey that they may never 

 have had before. Now the beauty of it is, all you have to do is to 

 furnish your Congressman with a list of your neighbors and custo- 



