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treatment may save it, it will be of little use during 

 the summer. 



Honey, Nature's food for the bees, must take the first 

 place among the supplies given to bees, but before 

 being given it should, if candied, be liquefied and 

 supplied as a syrup. The best substitute for honey 

 is sugar converted into syrup, or given in its raw state 

 according to directions following. Only the best cane 

 sugar in the loaf or crystallised form should be used. 

 Beet sugar must be avoided on account of the 

 chemicals used in its manufacture. 



Pollen, the fertilising dust gathered by the bees when 

 they visit flowers in search of nectar, may occasionally 

 run short in the hive, owing to stress of weather or a 

 lack of pollen-producing flowers. When this food is 

 scarce, pea-flour will be found a good substitute. It 

 may be scattered on some fine shavings in an inverted 

 skep, or mixed with the candy placed above the brood- 

 nest. If the bees are to obtain a supply of this 

 artificial pollen from a skep or other receptacle in the 

 apiary, a little syrup or honey must be sprinkled upon 

 whatever is used. Once the bees are thus enticed to 

 the supply prepared for them, they will not desert it, 

 as long as they are unable to obtain pollen from 

 natural sources, and in sufficient quantities for their 

 requirements. 



Dry sugar feeding. To distinguish this from the 

 method of feeding with syrup, the name dry sugar 

 feeding has been given. The term is, however, not 

 quite correct, otherwise white crystallised, which is 

 wholly unsuitable, might be used. This method of 

 feeding was introduced by Mr. S. Simmins in 1884, and 



