WHAT TO FEED.
For this purpose I would feed coffee A sugar, reduced to the consistency of honey, or else extracted honey kept over from the previous year. The price of the latter will decide which is the most profitable. Honey, too, that has been drained or forced out of cappings, etc., is good, and only good to feed. Many advise feeding the poorer grades of sugar in spring. My own experience makes me question the policy of ever using such feed for bees. The policy, too, of feeding glucose I much question. In all feeding, unless extracted honey is what we are using, we cannot exercise too great care that such feed is not carried to the surplus boxes. Only let our customers once taste sugar in their comb-honey, and not only is our own reputation gone, but the whole fraternity is injured. In case we wish to have our combs in the sections filled or capped, we must feed extracted honey, which may often be done with great advantage.
Fig. 54.
