CHAPTER VI 



FEEDING PRINCIPLES 



In modern bee-keeping it is absolutely necessary 

 that a certain amount of sugar feeding be done 

 if the greatest possible amount of profit is to 

 be derived from the bees. The duration of this 

 feeding and the amount of food supplied depend 

 to a great extent on the method of bee-keeping 

 practised by the owner of the bees, and also to 

 a considerable degree on the district in which the 

 apiary is situated. 



Broadly speaking, feeding is practised for three 

 purposes, which shall now be described. 



First we have autumn feeding, the purpose of 

 which is to supply the bees with a sufficiency 

 of food to enable them to winter safely. Now in 

 some districts little if any autumn feeding is neces- 

 sary, on account of there being flows of nectar 

 from certain late summer and autumn flowering 

 crops peculiar to the districts. These crops enable 

 the bees to gather a sufficiency of food for their 

 needs, and as the supers will have been removed 

 from the hives at the end of July it is Stored 

 where it is required— in the brood-nest. With 



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