FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



105 



and then each day only so much water as the bees will 

 use out that day. For they are not likely to do much at 

 night unless the weather be quite warm. 



WHOLESALE FEEDING. 



There come times, however, when the feeding must 

 be rushed, and there can be no puttering with getting one 

 colony to store for another. One of those times came in 

 the year 1902. The second week in June, at the time 

 when in a good season there ought to be lively work 

 piling on supers, I found nearly every colony on the point 

 of starvation. If there was any difference, the strongest 

 colonies were the worst. The combs were filled with 

 brood, requiring large daily consumption, stores in the 

 hive were exhausted, and not enough for daily supplies 



Fig. 33.— Combs of Brood. 



coming in. It would hardly be proper economy to have 

 combs filled with honey saved up for such emergencies, 



