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be built out in like manner. But the more important item 
to consider is the 
Special Plan of Feeding, 
which is not allowed to fail at any time while honey is not 
coming in. Slow-feeding as generally practised, is of no 
avail in producing the largest quantity of brood. In 
times of scarcity constant and /eavy stimulative feeding is 
the only course that can be adopted for this purpose, and 
that [ have found can be carried out only by a combznatzon 
of dry sugar or candy feeding, and a rapid supply of 
syrup. That is, the dry feeder with moist sugar, or a 4 lbs. 
candy frame at one side; a frame syrup feeder on the other 
side—acting as the dummies on either side of the three 
crowded combs. 
This combined process is the only one that can be 
made the means of forcing the /argest amount of brood in 
early Spring, and yet hitherto fast feeding has been 
condemned, because it has been considered that the bees 
will then fill up everything with food to the exclusion of 
brood. With ordinary colonies this is often so; but 
following the times, bee-keepers have become too closely 
wedded to the modern practice of using full combs, or 
sheets of foundation in the stock chamber. Their minds 
do not travel back to the possibility of making bees build 
their own combs to far greater advantage, and frequently 
more profit, without the expense of foundation. 
In Spring 
therefore, to enable one to get the greatest advantage in 
brood production, J put in a guide only to the central 
frame, when by feeding as already shown, the result is 
astonishing. The queen occupies each cell as the work 
proceeds, and there being no part thereof occupied by 
old stores or pollen, each of these new combs will be 
