colonies with no qneeu-eells to remove, but only the deUghtfnl trouble 

 of removing hundred- weights of honey. 



AUTUMN FEEDING FOR SUCCESS. 

 Simmins' " Two-thirds Security " Method. 



Another important feature in management, that may decide all your 

 future success, or the laclc of it, is correct Autumu Feeding. 



From mid August uutil mid-September, where no heather abounds, 

 stocks must be fed slowly aud constantly ; then finished rapidly uutil 

 the combs of tlie stock chamber are two-thirds filled, and at least two- 

 thirds of this store sealed over. 



The slow feeding, with a vigorous young queen heading the colouy, 

 produces the young bees that are absolutely necessary for successful 

 wintering, and the rapid finish will finally restrict the queen to a smaller 

 brood nest, that thereafter will slowly decline ; while this method will 

 ensure the proper sealing of the stores. 



During se\-ere winter weather bees may quickly freeze to death when 

 compelled to cluster between combs of unsealed stores, such as many 

 correspondents often refer to when they ha\-e been using the 



Unreliable Graduated Bottle Feeders. 



In the Author's Apiary none of these out-of-date feeders are used ; 

 indeed they w-ould be only a source of loss aud waste of time where auy 

 number ' of colonies are worked. Only rapid frame-feeders ensure 

 satisfactory sealing of the stores in Autunm ; while a medium frame- 

 feeder of all wood, used in spring is more satisfactory than the bottle 

 which latter is often then neglected if the weather is at all cool, wliile 

 the small frame-feeder which is also a dummy, is warm and the bees 

 are always ready to crowd into it. 



THE CURSE OF CANDY FEEDING. 

 Candy destroys hundreds of Colonies in Winter, 



This, the lazy man's bee-feed, and the cause of hundreds of stocks 

 dying out before Spring, should be condemned as the curse of bee- 

 keeping by every practical bee-owner. 



Candy in winter is nothing but a " sop " to cover careless manage- 

 ment. Hundreds of bee-owners fail to feed up with syrup in Autumn. 

 "Oh ? they will be all right," they say, " We can get plenty of candy." 

 They forget that it costs four times as much and is little less than poison 

 in the winter. We never use it except iu the active Spring aud Autumn 



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