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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 blossom and clover, it is 



Pig. 44. 



often desirable to give stimulative food for the production of 

 comhs in preparation for the second crop of honey. 



In the autumn those colonies 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 a rapid feeder. Fig. 45. There are different forms 

 of these, but the principle is the same in all, i.e , the bees are 

 allowed free accesis 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. It should be stored and sealed over with 



