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DR. MILLER J S 
Q. When you wish the bees to replenish the brood-chamber, 
how do you feed, and where do you place the food? 
A. If feed is needed in the brood-chamber, you may count on 
the bees putting it there in preference to any other place, no 
matter how you feed nor where you place the food. I use Miller 
feeders, placing the food on top. The crock-and-plate plan is 
also good. 
Q. Can I safely save scorched candy until next summer and 
feed it without danger to the bees— let them store it? 
A. Save your scorched feed till next spring, not for the bees 
to store, but for them to use up in rearing brood. 
Q. If in your judgment it would pay to feed bees right along 
through the season all the sugar at 5 cents per pound that they 
will use to have them make honey to sell at 15 cents per pound, 
will they neglect the fields to feed on the syrup? 
A. It would be very unadvisable, unless you want to get Uncle 
Samuel after you. To feed sugar so as to sell the resulting 
product as honey would be rank adulteration, for the product 
would not be legal honey. Indeed, one should strive to avoid as 
much as possible feeding sugar syrup for the use of bees, lest 
some of it should get into the surplus. Besides, it would not pay, 
as so much of it is used in comb-building. 
Feeding Frames of Honey. — Q. I have a lot of frames full of 
honey nicely capped and in a cool room where the temperature 
goes down to zero. I presume this honey is granulated. I intend 
to take those frames in the spring and divide them among my 
colonies as feed. Is this frozen honey good? Can the bees thaw 
that out, or will they carry the sugar out instead of using it for 
brood-rearing? 
A. The honey is entirely wholesome, but very likely the bees 
will waste a good deal of it by carrying out the undissolved gran- 
ules. You can do something to prevent that if you will go to the 
trouble of spraying the combs with warm water by means of an 
atomizer, first uncapping any cells of honey that may be sealed. 
When the combs are cleaned off dry by the bees they may be 
sprayed again. Don’t begin this until the bees are flying freely. 
Feeding Bees in Box-Hives. — Q. Would it do to take some of 
the box-hive colonies that are in danger of starving into a warm 
room this winter and transfer them to good frame hives, 
using only the good combs, and contract to the size bees will 
occupy, placing candy between the frames or on top? Or would 
it cause the bees to be over-excited, filling themselves, and when 
again confined in the cellar without a cleansing flight, to become 
filthy and sick? 
