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was required, most seasons are sufficiently favourable 

 for the bees to get all they want for themselves, but 

 not always. If, on the other hand, we want our bees 

 to provide us with a lot of honey, and yet have enough 

 for themselves, feeding will frequently have to be 

 resorted to. There seems to be little doubt that the 

 best way is, leave the bees a certain weight — say 20 or 

 25 lbs. — of honey in the autumn, and not disturb them 

 in the spring. If they are short of this weight feed 

 them up to it. Even then, if the .spring is cold, it is 

 better to give them a little food so as to keep breeding 

 going on, but not sufficient to store. The great thing 

 is to have a hive full of bees, so that when the honey 

 flow comes they will be able to take advantage of it. 

 Anything given to the bees in the shape of food will 

 be repaid with compound interest. As for the kind 

 of food, nothing can be better than the recipes given 

 at page 167 of The British Bee-keeper' s Guide Book, 

 by Thomas William Cowan, Esq. These are as 

 follows : — 



Boil for a few minutes. 



