HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



I, personally, have never found it so satisfac- 

 tory as some others. 



Whatever feeder is used, the colony fed for 

 early brood-rearing should be given toward 

 evening about half a pint of hot syrup, and 

 if the amount given is more than the bees 

 will take up during the night, the quantity 

 should be accordingly reduced. The feeding 

 should be discontinued as soon as a regular 

 flow begins to come in from natural sources, 

 and the feeders stored away, though in the 

 case of the Lyon feeder only the glass jars 

 are taken away, as the feeding-board remains 

 as a cover for the frames beneath the hive lid. 



In feeding for winter stores the standard 

 feeder for years was the Miller feeder, a large 

 water-tight box with two compartments so 

 arranged that the bees have access to the feed 

 through a wire screen and are thus in no 

 serious danger of being drowned. This 

 feeder will hold as much as twenty-five pounds 

 of syrup, and is placed in an empty comb 

 honey super on top of the brood frames. 



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