422 A Modern Bee-Farm 
Uniting has already been explained in Chapter II, 
especially as regards making the bees queenless. 
Plumping. 
The Author’s system of “plumping” will be-found highly 
beneficial in building up driven bees. Under the usual 
conditions there has always been great difficulty in inducing - 
the bees to develop a brood nest of sufficient extent to 
compensate for the loss of life in storing the necessary food 
for Winter. 
Rapid feeding with syrup followed by a large cake of 
candy,* will always be found to start a good brood nest in 
the case of condemned bees, when re-established in bar- 
frame hives. 
* This candy is used up before Winter, and none should be 
supplied after September. 
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