354 A Modern Bee-Farm 
The careful bee-keeper will no more think of neglecting 
to feed his bees in proper season than a stock owner 
will fail to provide suitable food for his cows, from 
which he anticipates a profitable yield of milk and 
butter. 
The recognised substitute for the nectar of flowers, 
either as refined cane or beet sugar, is found to be 
fully equal, and for some purposes superior to the 
natural produce, for the preservation of bee-life. 
CHAPTER XXII.' 
FEEDING AND FEEDERS. 
HOUSANDS of colonies are carelessly lost every 
Winter—in many cases where the bees are left with 
natural stores, and in very large numbers where a 
deficiency of food has not been made up by supplying 
sugar syrup. 
Many owners take all they can from their bees, giving 
nothing in return, thus robbing their own pockets, Others 
deliberately rely upon candy as a substitute in Winter ; 
instead of feeding with syrup during September, and thus 
leaving the bees comfortably settled between properly 
sealed stores. 
Sugar Syrup versus Honey. 
Reports from many very extensive owners of bees, with 
30 to 40 years of practical and extended experience behind 
them, show conclusively that syrup from refined sugars is 
a more satisfactory food for bees in Winter than the nectar 
of flowers. Hence the statement made by some amateurs 
of little experience that sugar feeding is detrimental, and 
