COMB HONEY. IO9 



yoke, to the place among the hives where they were 

 needed. Then resting a pail on a stool, prepared 

 for the purpose, the honey was quickly poured into 

 a feeder and the feeder hung into the hive or super. 

 Work as rapidly as I could, it took me rather more 

 than three minutes to feed a hive. Before all were 

 attended to it was dark, and a very tired young man 

 went to bed that night before eight o'clock. In or- 

 der to stimulate rapid comb building in every box, 

 I had determined to fill the feeders again next morn- 

 ing. At daylight I was at the work, beginning 

 where I had begun the day before. In nearly all 

 the boxes comb was begun. The feeders were 

 nearly empty. They were all filled before nine 

 o'clock. I calculated that it would take the bees 

 about the whole day to empty them this time, but 

 afterwards I fed, in the morning, only about three 

 pounds, so as to leave them a chance to fly out for 

 several hours during the day, but gave a full feed in 

 the evening. This calculation proved in the main 

 correct. On the morning of the fourth day the 

 boxes were nearly all full of comb, and the upper 

 parts of the combs were already sealed. That 

 evening I fed only about two pounds, and then for 

 two days put only a small amount in each feeder. 

 On the morning of the seventh day the honey in the 

 boxes was all nicely sealed. It was only in time, for 

 the buckwheat had begun to open. If I kept feed- 



