152 A Modern Bee-Farm 
apiary or the neighborhood, no wideawake bee-keeper will 
in future leave his bees with natural stores for the winter. 
One may not say, “ That is well enough, I’ll leave it alone.” 
I assure you it is not well enough, and you may not leave 
it alone, if bee-paralysis is anywhere near you. 
The stored honey must as far as possible be removed,* 
not that this may be a source of danger, but because the 
careful owner must make up his mind to feed his stocks 
with efficiently medicated syrup. In this way the bees 
have only medicinally prepared food to live upon, and are 
‘thus able to keep free from disease. Stocks not so treated 
are frequently found to be failing with the Isle of Wight 
disease in late autumn and winter, when any sort of 
manipulation is out of the question, and it is then too 
late to change the stores. 
These points were advanced by me in the British Bee 
Journal, August 24th, 1911, and more particularly insisted 
upon in that Journal for September 5th, 1912, as a helpful 
warning, so that bee-keepers might certainly avoid the 
usual winter losses from this complaint. I showed that 
The Bee-owner’s Great Opportunity 
occurred in the Autumn, and if my advice as to feeding up 
with medicated food was followed, I declared it to be a fact 
that winter and early spring outbreaks need never occur. 
Many have already profited: by this advice, and at last 
bee-keepers generally are beginning to realise the above 
truth. The process of cure is always hastened by the 
addition of a young queen, clean brood, and healthy bees, 
when available, even if only as many as will cover a single 
comb. Another point is that feeding with medicated food 
* With a July reared queen inserted in August there will be no 
difficulty in turning much of the natural store into young bees, 
before finishing by rapid feeding. : 
