86 UR. miller's 



Q. When you wish the bees to replenish the brood-chamber, 

 how do you feed, and where do you place the food? 



A. If feed is needed in the brood-chamber, you may count on 

 the bees putting it there in preference to any other place, no 

 matter how you feed nor where you place the food. I use Miller 

 feeders, placing the food on top. The crock-and-plate plan is 

 also good. 



Q. Can I safely save scorched candy until next summer and 

 feed it without danger to the bees — let them store it? 



A. Save your scorched feed till next spring, not for the bees 

 to store, but for them to use up in rearing brood. 



Q. If in your judgment it would pay to feed bees right along 

 through the season all the sugar at S cents per pound that they 

 will use to have them make honey to sell at 15 cents per pound, 

 will they neglect the fields to feed on the syrup? 



A. It would be very unadvisable, unless you want to get Uncle 

 Samuel after you. To feed sugar so as to sell the resulting 

 product as honey would be rank adulteration, for the product 

 would not be legal honey. Indeed, one should strive to avoid as 

 much as possible feeding sugar syrup for the use of bees, lest 

 some of it should get into the surplus. Besides, it would not pay, 

 as so much of it is used in comb-building. 



Feeding Frames of Honey. — Q. I have a lot of frames full of 

 honey nicely capped and in a cool room where the temperature 

 goes down to zero. I presume this honey is granulated. I intend 

 to take those frames in the spring and divide them among my 

 colonies as feed. Is this frozen honey good? Can the bees thaw 

 that out, or will they carry the sugar out instead of using it for 

 brood-rearing? 



A. The honey is entirely wholesome, but very likely the bees 

 will waste a good deal of it by carrying out the undissolved gran- 

 ules. You can do something to prevent that if you will go to the 

 trouble of spraying the combs with warm water by means of an 

 atomizer, first uncapping any cells of honey that may be sealed. 

 When the combs are cleaned off dry by the bees they may be 

 sprayed again. Don't begin this until the bees are flying freely. 



Feeding Bees in Box-Hives. — Q. Would it do to take some of 

 the box-hive colonies that are in danger of starving into a warm 

 room this winter and transfer them to good frame hives, 

 using only the good combs, and contract to the size bees will 

 occupy, placing candy between the frames or on top? Or would 

 it cause the bees to be over-excited, filling themselves, and when 

 again confined in the cellar without a cleansing flight, to become 

 filthy and sick? 



