IIo BEE-KEEPING FOR PROFIT 
would recommend that the method should be 
tried, for no harm would be done and 
possibly a certain amount of good. The food 
given should be thinner than usual—to coun- 
teract the effect of the farinaceous pollen food 
—and contain double the ordinary amount of 
salt. The hive should be cleared of any dirt, 
and the floor-board washed over with a weak 
solution of carbolic acid. 
Should the combs become full of syrup 
as the result of this feeding, take some of 
them out and place them near the feeder, 
replacing them with empty ones. 
The outside feeding encourages the bees 
to take exercise, which is all to their ad- 
vantage, but it is not permissible where there 
are large numbers of hives in the district. In 
such a case a quilt of open material must be 
placed over the hive instead of the several 
thick ones, and inside feeding adopted. 
Chilled Brood.—Although this cannot in 
every instance be accounted a disease, yet, 
unless care be taken, there is no knowing 
where an incipient case will end. The cause 
is suggested by the name—the brood in the 
cells becomes chilled, and the effect is death. 
As a rule, when this has happened the cappings 
of the cells become black, and the appearance 
