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“ NOVICE’S ” GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 
About like lionev. When you have made 
one boiler full, pour it into your extractor 
and start another. Don't let it burn, the 
women know how much it should be 
stirred. 
We believe the syrup answers equally 
well it made of cold water and sugar sim- 
ply stirred up, and the syrup poured off 
when the sugar has settled, but we cannot 
get it as Illicit by this method, and conse- 
quently it takes the bees longer to evap- 
orate it to the point at which they decide 
it should be to seal it up. I.ast season 
we fed sunc that they kept in the cells 
nearly two weeks before they would seal 
it, but they wintered on it equally well, 
and besides, if we wish them to take it 
rapidly, it should be given them warm. 
In regard to cream of tartar, we would 
add about twelve teaspoonsful to every 
hundred pounds of sugar simply to pre- 
vent granulation of the syrup on our 
utensels, etc., while handling it. If you 
can get it into the combs and the bees 
seal it up before it has time to erystalize, 
it answers every purpose just as well, but 
to do this you must have all strong colo- 
nies, as in fact you should have any way. 
So many have succeeded without cream 
of tartar that we have no hesitation in 
saying it is not essential. Even should 
the syrup turn to sugar in the cells, it will 
do no further harm than the fact that 
they are very apt to waste it in the spring, 
when it is being consumed. 
HOW TO KEEl) 
don't matter, so you get it all sealed up as 
soon as possible. We think it will pay 
you to get your tinsmith to make you 
about one-fourth as many tea kettle feed- 
ers as you have colonies, and you can 
then probably get all through in three or 
four days, and where he makes a number 
at once they can be made cheaper. It is 
true a tin milk pan placed on top of the 
frames with a cloth laid over it does very 
well, and some of our friends say they 
work as rapidly, in warm weather. We 
prefer the tea kettles because they hold 
just about 25 pounds each, and when 
once filled and placed on the hive, that 
hive is done; besides, it can all be attend- 
e I to without oven daubing the fingers if 
you are careful. Have your extractor 
mounted on a box of lint right higlit to 
allow the gate to run into the feeder, 
place these when filling in a shallow pan, 
lint learn to fill them without running 
them over; when the syrup is cool enough 
to allow your hand on the feeder, place 
them on the top of the frames of the hive. 
Ifefore you have learned rite knack of in- 
verting them quickly, you had better car- 
ry along a pan, and hold them over that 
until they cease dripping. Above till 
thuigt don't get robbers at work: to be 
sure that none of your feeders leak, try 
them all with boiling water before using 
them Sometimes in soldering, a crevice 
is only closed with resin, and the hot syr- 
up melts this out. If they will not leak a 
drop when inverted full of water, there is 
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no danger, and after they have onee been 
used they are all right. for a life time, evert 
if made of the cheapest tin. Wash the 
outsides if you wish but not the inside. 
They will never get sour if thick syrup 
be always used, and when dried on, it 
prevents rust. The hive must be nearly 
level, of course, and this is a feature 
about the “simplicity” we like, for we al- 
ways have them thus. A second story is 
always used in feeding, and one such may 
be used for several by turning back the 
cover until feeding is done, and then 
moving both feeder and upper story to 
the next. 
now MUCH TO FEi.l). 
Many experiments seem to indicate 
that ten pounds of sugar will safely carry 
a colony through the winter, but it is so 
easy to give them the whole amount to 
take them through until May, while we 
are about it, that we think such a course 
best, and we arc fully satisfied that sealed 
combs of food is more economical and 
just as beneficial as any possible way of 
“tinkering” with liquid food in March and 
April. In buying the sugar, to he sure 
and have ample stores, we would calcu- 
late twenty pounds of suyar for each col- 
ony. 
Some, of course, will consume more 
than others, and in April and May we 
should see that supplies are equalized 
with the two-fold purpose of supplying 
the needy, and getting syrup all used up, 
out of the way of honey. 
Had not unscrupulous patent hive 
venders encouraged the idea that honey 
could be made by feeding bees sugar, we 
should not, deem it necessary to state here 
that sugar syrup will always be that, and 
nothing more. Those who choose can 
try, il they like, to see how much it takes 
to build comb. 
WHAT TO 1)0 WITH FA I, I, HONEY. 
As we have never been so fortunate as 
to have a yield of honey here after the. 
middle ol Sept., we can only suggest a 
remedy. If there is no lull in the yield 
of honey during warm weather, it might 
lie difficult to get them to use the syrup. 
Experiment will have to be the guide. 
When you get eotubs nicely filled with 
syrup, endeavor to make them store in 
comb given them temporarily, and these 
may be taken away, or combs might be 
lilted at any time, and laid aside until all 
pasturage was over and then given them, 
and were it not for the danger of thus 
depriving them of all their stores of pol- 
len, we should call this a very good way, 
and in fact we have made first-rate colo- 
nies by shaking the bees and queen from 
after swarms that were destitute, (obtain- 
ed from neighbors of the “box hive per- 
suasion ’) on a few Langstroth frames of 
scaled honey in December. As winter 
stores are safer than honey alone, even if 
only partly of syrup, we would advise 
those having box hives that need feeding 
to use the syrup by till means, and the 
same remarks will apply to thusc having 
