48 FEEDING. 



SO proceed until all have sufficient stores to winter 

 safely. 



In no case take out frames at the close of the 

 season, and leave that space without a frame, or 

 with an empty frame. At the commencement of 

 winter every hive must (to winter safely) have its 

 full number of frames j^/Zet/ with comb, no matter 

 if they are not filled with honey (if the hive has the 

 required number of pounds,) but each frame must 

 be filled, or nearly filled with comb, or there is 

 great danger of loss from sudden changes of tem- 

 perature through the winter. 



In feeding for box honey, it often requires more 

 than one pound of feed to secure a pound in boxes, 

 for the bees consume some while storing it, and 

 they often find some place in the hive which, like 

 the crowded omnibus or street car, is not so full 

 but that additions may be made. 



The reader will bear in mind this simple fact : 

 Bees do not make honey, they simply collect it. 

 Honey undergoes no chemical change in the stomach 

 of the bee. 



Several years since, my bees had access to several 

 molasses hogsheads, and the result was, I found 

 pure molasses stored in my hives, in the same comb 

 with nice white honey. I am satisfied that the 

 bee does not m.ake honey but collects it. My feed 

 is prepared and recommended in view of this fact, 

 and in perfect accord with all points bearing upon 

 this subject. 



The feed is of the same color as the nicest, white 

 clover honey, and when put in boxes by the bees 



