. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 340 American l^ee Journal October, 1914. brother Alban, aged 6. with the mask, wielding the smoker. The little apiary is on a hillside adjoining the father's large apiary. When the picture was taken the bees were flying lively and somewhat cross. These children also have each a little garden of his own which they fenced (with wire) and till themselves. They speak both German and English, the parents wisely teach- ing them the mother tongue first. The season's honey is now mostly hauled out of the mountain regions and stored, awaiting better prices The
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 340 American l^ee Journal October, 1914. brother Alban, aged 6. with the mask, wielding the smoker. The little apiary is on a hillside adjoining the father's large apiary. When the picture was taken the bees were flying lively and somewhat cross. These children also have each a little garden of his own which they fenced (with wire) and till themselves. They speak both German and English, the parents wisely teach- ing them the mother tongue first. The season's honey is now mostly hauled out of the mountain regions and stored, awaiting better prices The accompanying snapshots show the loading of the honey cases at the apiaries. w > Our Coming Beekeepers. Conducted by J. L. Byer, Mt. Joy, Ontario. Feeding This brings up the feeding question, a live issue this fall in Ontario, as with a failure of the honey crop in most cases, and high price of sugar, m;iny beekeepers hardly know what to do. Wherever sugar can be obtained doubtless it will be fed, but in many cases the beekeepers have not a bit of honey of any kind even if they pre- ferred to feed it instead of sugar syrup. In my own case 1 thought 1 had defi- nitely settled the matter as to how thick a syrup to feed, and it gave me quite a jolt to see what friend J. A. McK'nnon has to say on this question in the last issue of the American Bee Journal. While I have the greatest respect for Mr. McKinnon's ideas (he is one of the best queen breeders and all around beekeepers), yet I think he is greatly mistaken in his conclusions when he states that a syrup made of two parts of sugar to one of water, fed in large quantities to the bees, will granulate solidly. I do not even add any acid to the syrup, and I am just about as sure as I can be of anything, that this thick syrup does not act that way with me. How do I know? Simply by the fact that after using this proportion for a number of years I have never lost a colony so fed, and when weighing col- onies after being fed this m
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