CHAPTER TV, 
FEEDING. 
EEDING bees when judiciously managed, is the 
ir stepping stone to large profits from them. Bee 
keepers who have heretofore attempted to feed bees have 
met with poor success. 
A bee keeper of my acquaintance paid fifty dollars for 
a patent apparatus for feeding bees together in the open 
air. The result was, soon after being fed, they com- 
menced fighting among themselves. The weaker stock 
first fell prey to the stronger, then the stronger in turn 
were attacked, and the final result was, nearly every 
stock was ruined, and the plan abandoned in disgust after 
the first season’s trial. 
Now it is plain to every intelligent person, that in 
order to receive the greatest possible profit from bees, 
they must be fed. There can be no question as to the 
great benefit to be derived from feeding bees. The only 
question is, how, when and what to feed. It is as much 
a necessity to feed bees, as to feed our domestic animals, 
cows, sheep, etc., or to apply manure to plants, or any 
crop the farmer cultivates, to stimulate growth and 
increase the product and consequent profit. of the same. 
We should look upon that farmer as either a fool or a 
lunatic, who should furnish his domestic animals no food, 
