34 Bee-Keeping Simplified for the 
Stimulative feeding is also carried out with newly-hived 
swarms for about a week or ten days to help them to build 
combs quickly. In those districts where there is a break 
between the honey flows, such as fruit and clover, it is often 
Fic. 44. 
desirable to give stimulative food for the production of combs 
in preparation for the second crop of honey. 
In the autumn those stocks which require food should have 
it given to them slowly, so that they may rear more brood, and 
also store and seal some of it in the cells. At the end of 
September the full complement of food should be made up by 
means of w rapid feeder, Fig. 45. ‘here are different forms 
of these, but the principle is the same in all, 2.e., the bees are 
allowed free access to the syrup, so that they can take it as 
quickly as they desire, provision being made to prevent them 
from drowning. The syrup for rapid feeding and for slow 
feeding in the autumn is made thicker than that for the other 
periods of the year. Jt should he stored and sealed over with 
