FEEDING, 4'7 



rule say a few days before fruit blossoms appear. 

 Feed as directed for swarms until about ten days be- 

 fore white dover blossoms, then put on the top 

 boxes, leaving room only for feeder. Then for tew 

 or twelve days feed them all they will take. Feed 

 at evening. They will at firet, perhaps, take from 

 five to ten pounds every night. Crowd them hard, 

 for the object is now to get every part of the brood 

 section (not occupied by eggs and brood) filled 

 with honey ; and if possible, crowd the bees into 

 the boxes to commence the work of comb building, 

 so that during the yield of honey from flowers, you 

 can get every ounce collected, stored in the boxes. 



By early and judicious feeding, we have en- 

 couraged breeding so that now our hives are filled, 

 almost to overflowing, with bees, ready to gather 

 the harvest from the flowers as soon as they begin 

 to yield honey. 



Discontinue feeding, while the yield of honey 

 continues in tull supply from the flowers. At the 

 close of the yield, if you have boxes half filled or 

 more, feed all they will take up for a few days, or 

 until your boxes are finished. 



Feeding fok Winter. 



The last of September or first of October feed 

 such stocks as are short of stores, to winter them. 

 Each stock should have twenty pounds of honey in 

 the brood section to winter safely. If they have 

 less than that, feed until they have that quantity, or 

 take a frame of honey from a stock that has some to 

 spare, and exchange with the one that is short, and 



