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AN EASY METHOD OF 
them to carry as much pure white clover 
honey into the drawers the following season, 
there being no room to store it below. — 
Swarms will feed out and deposit ten pounds 
of honey a day and night, each hive. Small 
drawers cannot be depended on as feeders, 
except in the spring and summer, unless they 
are kept so warm that the vapor of the bees 
will not freeze in them. It would be extreme- 
ly hazardous for the bees to enter a frosty 
drawer. They will sooner starve than at- 
tempt the experiment. Drawers may be 
used without danger from robbers, but when 
the feeder is used, robbers must be guarded 
against as directed in Rule 4. 
Bees should not be fed in the spring unless 
they arc nearly destitute of honey, because 
they fill up the brood comb too much with 
honey : when fully fed in the lull, the bees 
store up the honey in such a manner as will 
be convenient for them in the winter, and 
notwithstanding the cells for raising young 
bees arc filled up with honey at that time, 
the bees consume the honey and empty the 
breeding cells in the course of the winter, so 
