HOW TO GET THE BEES 83 



them to crawl out more easily. If this 

 precaution Is not taken you are apt to 

 find your tin pan only a trap for your 

 bees. One should be careful about feed- 

 ing honey to bees unless he knows that it 

 comes from a healthy apiary. Honey pro- 

 duced by diseased bees can infect a healthy 

 colony to which it is fed. For that 

 reason sugar is preferred to honey for 

 artificial feeding. However, it is not ad- 

 visable to feed the new colony too much 

 lest it get the idea that it will always have 

 an abundance of food ready at hand and 

 will fail to set to work and build up its 

 numbers. Bees are like humans in many 

 regards. They do not stand prosperity 

 any better than we do and when things 

 are coming their way vsdth a rush they are 

 inclined to loaf on the job a bit and I im- 

 agine would take to silk shirts and sport 

 model motors just as readily as people 

 would — if they had a chance. 



Therefore it is a good idea to give them 

 just what food they need for their house- 



