CHAPTER V 
FEEDING PRINCIPLES 
IN modern bee-keeping it is absolutely necessary 
that a certain amount of sugar feeding be done 
if the greatest possible amount of profit is to 
be derived from the bees. The duration-of this 
feeding and the amount of food supplied depend 
to a great extent on the method of bee-keeping 
practised by the owner of the bees, and also to 
a considerable degree on the district in which the 
apiary is situated. 
Broadly speaking, feeding is practised for three 
purposes, which shall now be described. 
First we have autumn feeding, the purpose of 
which is to supply the bees with a sufficiency 
of food to enable them to winter safely. Now in 
some districts little if any autumn feeding is neces- 
sary, on account of there being flows of nectar 
from certain late summer and autumn flowering 
crops peculiar to the districts. These crops enable 
the bees to gather a sufficiency of food for their 
meeds, and as the supers will have been removed 
from the hives at the end of July, it is stored 
where it is required—in the brood-nest. With 
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