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has a long lease will profit largely by planting in this 

 manner. 



The owner, of course, has the greatest advantage, and 

 with set out permanent trees at about 27 feet apart in the 

 first place, and these grafted on crab stock. The field is 

 then filled up with bush trees, with about 9 feet between, 

 all ways. 



IzAL — The Positive Cure for Foul Brood can be 

 •procured from your local chemist in is. bottles ; or of 

 the manufacturers, Messrs Newton Chambers and Co. 

 Thorncliffe, Sheffield. 



Large Frame Feeders, for rapid feeding, such as I 

 first described and illustrated in the British Bee Journal 

 just about twenty years ago, are most useful in Autumn, 

 and even if the syrup is used cold, the heat from the bees 

 Cbeing all closed in together) very soon raises the tempera- 

 ture of the food to that of the cluster. This point should 

 not be lost sight of. 



Slow Feeding in Sprl\g. — The combs having been 

 fed up almost solid before winter, when the Spring arrives 

 ■candy in six to eight-pound slabs, hanging in frames, will 

 be found one of the very best methods of slow stimulation. 

 You see these may be placed close to the cluster as a 

 dummy, and of course are always warm. 



All large owners of bees regard slow syrup feeding as a 

 •" tinkering," wasteful process, consuming time and energy 

 which should be better employed. The smaller bee- 

 keeper, usually having some other constant occupation, 

 can even less afford to carry out slow syrup feeding. 



The advantages of rapid feeding in Autumn (see pp. 90, 

 175) can not be contradicted by any progressive bee- 



