FALL FEEDING. 
mind, you will not get one drop of sugar or syrup on the floor or 
table. Keep your hands clean, and everything else clean, and 
let the women folks see that men have common sense; some of 
them at least. Ifyou should forget yourself, and let the candy 
boil over on the stove, it would be very apt to get on the floor, 
and then you would be very likely to get ‘your foot in it”, and 
before you got through, you might wish you had never heard of 
bees or candy either; and your wife, if she did no. say so, might 
wish she had never heard of anything that brought a man into 
the kitchen. I have had a little experience in the line of feet 
sticking to the floor and snapping at every step you take, and 
with door knobs sticking to the fingers, but it was in the honey 
house.” (A. B. C.” page 48.) 
613. The Rev. Mr.Scholz, of Silesia, more than 30 years 
ago, recommended the following as a substitute for sugar- 
candy in feeding bees: 
“Take one pint of honey and four pounds of pounded lump- 
sugar; heat the honey, without adding water, and mix it with 
the sugar, working it together to a stiff doughy mass. When thus 
thoroughly incorporated, cut it into slices, or form it into cakes 
or lumps, and wrap them ina piece of coarse linen and place 
them in the frames. Thin slices, enclosed in linen, may be pushed 
down between the combs. The plasticity of the mass enables 
the Apiarist to apply the food in any manner he may desire. The 
bees have less difficulty in appropriating this kind of food than 
where candy is used, and there is no waste.” 
This preparation has been used of late years with suc- 
cess, as food in mailing and shipping bees, under the name 
of ‘‘Good’s candy.”’ 
Thick sugar-syrup and candy are undoubtedly the best 
bee-food, especially when the bees are to be confined a long 
time and no brood is to be raised. 
614. An experiment of De Layens has proved that bees 
can use water to dissolve sugar (273), The same writer 
relates how a French bee-keeper, Mr. Beuzelin, feeds his 
bees in Winter: 
‘“‘He saws into slices a large loaf of lump-sugar, and places 
these slices upon the frames under a cloth. Another bee-keeper 
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