Produced by David Edwards, Harry Lame and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's notes: | | | | The scans on which this e-book was based have been generously made| | available by the Internet Archive. | | | | The original text has been preserved for this e-book, including | | (minor) inconsistencies (for example, right-hand v. right hand). | | | | The footnote has been moved to directly underneath the section it | | refers to. | | | | Transcription used in this e-text: italics in the original are | | presented here between underscores, as in _text_; small capitals | | in the original document are presented here as ALL CAPITALS. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Apiary Inspection. Bulletin No. 7A. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. SOFT CANDY FOR BEES. BY DR. BURTON N. GATES. FROM THE SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Illustration] BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 32 DERNE STREET. 1914. APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD OF PUBLICATION. SOFT CANDY FOR BEES. THE SO-CALLED "FULLER CANDY" FOR QUEEN CAGES, TRANSPORTATION OF COMBLESS COLONIES, STIMULATIVE AND GENERAL FEEDING. The well-informed beekeeper has learned that it is unwise and hazardous to feed under any circumstances honey in any form, even though it be from his own apiary. There have been many sad and general infections with bee diseases by such unguarded feeding. Thus it has become almost an axiom, "Feed no honey." Consequently, substitutes have necessarily been adopted and among these are sugar syrups of various dilutions and compositions; "hard candy," which is virtually a taffy; and recently, the so-called "Fuller candy," which is a soft fondant, not dissimilar to the fondant of chocolate creams. For several years Mr. Fuller of Blackstone, Mass., as well as others, has been experimenting with this modified English candy, which should not harden beyond usefulness. Beekeepers of Massachusetts and elsewhere about the country have found it advantageous to use this as a substitute for honey or syrup. So numerous are the inquiries and satisfactory the results, that it seems desirable to prepare information in printed form.