FEEDING PRINCIPLES ‘41 
good bee;keeping, during the honey season proper 
little if any honey. can be stored in the brood- 
nest owing to the management. The apiarist sees 
to it that the brood-combs are a solid mass of 
brood, and takes care there is a queen present 
who will keep them so. What honey is gathered 
therefore goes into the supers, which are taken 
off at the end of the regular honey flow, usually 
about the end of July. After that time what the 
bees gather they are allowed to keep. If there 
is a late flow to enable them to fill their depleted 
exchequer, well and good; if there is not, then 
they must be fed. 
Again, to go to the other extreme, bad bee- 
keepers frequently have to do but little autumn 
feeding, and that is owing to the utter badness of 
their methods. These bee-keepers have many of 
their hives with comparatively worthless queens in 
possession, quite incapable of utilizing more than 
half of the brood-chamber for breeding purposes. 
Consequently the most of the early honey gathered 
is stored in the brood-chamber instead of in the 
supers, for be it noted that bees will never store 
in the supers while there is space in the brood- 
nest. 
Spring feeding is food supplied for the purpose 
of inducing the bees to breed faster than they, 
otherwise would, and is most important and even 
necessary in the case of apiaries situated in early. 
fruit-growing districts, where bees must be very, 
