356 A Modern Bee-Farm 
more quickly than usual during the Spring of 1913; still 
with an unusually small number of normal deaths—and, 
be it remembered, sugar syrup was the great stay. 
In the apiary where bees and queens are raised for sale, 
feeding has often to be resorted to during a dearth of 
honey, in the production of bees and queens on a large 
scale. Colonies are depleted by sub-division to such an 
extent that the remaining bees are occupied entirely in 
brood rearing, forced on to the utmost by the master. 
Honey is quite a secondary object; bees must be had. 
Consequently, honey cannot always be obtained even 
when the average colony is storing, and the forcing 
process must therefore be kept up by some substitute. 
Simmins’ Dry* Sugar Feeding. 
For Spring feeding generally, and for use with nuclei, I 
have found nothing so stimulative as my plan of dry sugar 
feeding. The feeder consists of a hollow dummy with 
one side hinged on simple wire nails and held by the 
same above; or by staples turned at right angles to 
project over the margin below and a turned wire inserted 
at either corner at the top, which can be moved out of the 
way to allow of easily removing the side. The space 
between the sides should not be more than one inch, or 
comb will frequently be built therein. 
Correct versus Incorrect Application. 
Uncooked, soft sugar feeding became practical only when 
I introduced the feeder that enabled it to be carried out 
in an economical manner; but unfortunately substitutes 
have since been offered, being incorrectly constructed and 
applied. 
You see, the bees must cluster in a dense mass in the 
* As distinguished from syrup. 
