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CHAPTER XVIII. 



FEEDING AND FEEDERS. 



lyXVIHEN and how to feed are questions of considerable 

 III importance to bee-keepers generally. In the 

 apiary where bees and queens are raised for sale, 

 feeding has often to be resorted to, as nothing is so 

 exhaustive as the production of bees and queens on a 

 large scale. Many colonies are reduced to such an 

 extent that the remaining bees are occupied entirely in 

 brood rearing, forced on to the utmost by the master. 

 Honey is quite a secondary object ; bees must be had. 

 Consequently, honey cannot always be obtained even when 

 the average colony is storing, and the forcing process 

 must therefore be kept up by some substitute. 



Simmins' Dry Sugar Feeding. 



For spring feeding generally, and for use with nuclei, I 

 have found nothing so stimulative as my plan of dry sugar 

 feeding. The feeder consists of a hollow dummy with 

 one side hinged on simple wire nails and held by the 

 same above ; or by staples turned at right angles to pro- 

 ject over the margin beldw and a turned wire inserted 

 at either corner at the top, which can be moved out of the 



