The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-12-02
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PREPARING BEES FOR WL>TEAs'

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ed by.an extra good one, and we trust
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mt d,sappsinted Will Ls.p this in
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thSr bees qKAShe hark, to take
adya ha,tane tlat may
'N&a upon tkSaNWe advise
\&&0h erS3saas Immediately
an&aSd A AHsps Stocks. Bot,
tie feedilR II the best: but a couple
of ;sspdips tins With perforated st. a wood
7esht s ! p,,sced e 8 s e. the
central hole, and covered over by an
inverted box without the lid, answer
pretty we'll for giving supplies to fiat
topped hives. Let the food required
be given a. soon and as quickly as
possible. A hungry hive will store
up three OF four pounds of liquid food
in a day, and all that is needed may
be administered in less than q week.
We know that rapid feeding or
large quantity Of food administered
at one time, is deemed most unwise
by some bee keepers on the ground
that the bees put the food into the
brood cells, and thereby prevent owl
position and the consequent produc-
ton Of the all-important young bees
30 positively essential to the existence
Of colony during winter" But
JtAis Evil, IF it.be5 one, Is more than
oountsrbalaneed by the benefit aris-
,ipgf from having the. food stored, its
xatsty PARTICLES svaporated, and the
whSl6 Slhkd over before the advent
Of cold weather.
When feeding f. p1otractec until
the temperature fails, many cells that
should be closed arc left open;. the aid
which !; warm atmosphere gives in
;, proaaoting: zevapo<at;oa is lost, and
'e.ndying7 If tbs tyrup or internal
moisture, which i very hurtful, fol.
lewis Besides, late breeding is not
desirable, tor In hives that have had
. successful: summer and are left un-
disturbed, we end it is tho exception
and not the rule: Bees naturally 90
into state Of repose' At the end of
tie honey harvest, and hence by COM
pletin9 the work Of feeding as early
- possible, we allow them to get
sooner into that inactive condition,
which is not only beneficial to them,
but preparatory and essential to ena-
BILE them to meet with impunity the
endurances Of winter. Il bee at rest
and scarcely consuming any food,
will live three times as long as one
that is always moving and frequently
on the wing.
Age, therefore, does not greatly af:
feet colonies that spend their time
in hanging in motionless clusters, and
their powers are but little impaired:
If they 60 to roost before the close OF
September, and continue quiescent
afterwards . they can do very we'll
without any addition to their num-
beers from brood till the following
spring. ! IN proof Of this We We: may re-
fer to Two adjacent hives that were
last YER erammed with honey, and.
for want Of room gave up breeding
early IN September.
From one of these, in order to
make its queen resume ovipositiug,
and get young bees, that are deemed
80 essential" we, by means of the
"slinger," extracted all the honey
from two Of the central combs. A
expected, the emptied cells were soon
filled with eggs and numbers Of young
brood were Matched out before winter.
But with view to obtain and COM
pure results, We allowed the loaded
nurseries Of the other hive to remain
.g
- We found them: aud its bees to re.
lapse" into, their former dormancy.
Both hives passed through winter sat-
isfactorily;;-the one, however, which
had only old beesto begin the cam
psign, quite outstripped its fellow that
bad e population Of both old and
yonng, and was ready: to swarm a
fbstmsht .Aooner: While, therefore,,
~itmsy BE- true That autumn or late
br es bees are' essential " the welfare
.afsstseks which shgss, their activity
prolonged by dribiet Of interval feed
ing, It IS no less true that stocks which
are quickly fsd-up and then left to
+epioy that ~x,Itt1mr,al raixsA vhiek;