106 FIFTY YEARS AlVtONG 'THE BIDES 



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

 use out that day ; for they are not lilcely to do much at night 

 unless the weather ))e quite warm. 



WHOLESALE FEEDING. 



There come times, however, when the feeding nuist 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 



Fig. 33 — Cumhs of Brood. 



there ought to be lively work piling on supei's, I found nearly 

 every colony on the point of starvation. If there was any dif- 

 ference the strongest colonies were the worst. The combs were 

 filled with brood, requiring large daily consumption, stores in 

 the liive were exhausted, and not enough for daily supplies 

 coming in. It would hardly be proper economy to have combs 

 filled with honejf saved up for such emergencies, seeing that 

 they are not expected to come often, so the whole force of feed- 

 ers, some fifty, were put into action. 



Part were put in the home apiary and part taken to the 



