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Re: Fall Feeding
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Date:
Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:33:36 -0400
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> Assuming little or no stored honey how much sugar
> should be fed?

> In searching the archives there is a wide array of
> suggestions ranging from "as much as they will take"

This is not a bad tactic, really. :)

> to one pound of sugar equals one pound of honey.

That one cannot be true in this universe.
Entropy is a harsh taskmaster, and it never goes away. :)
You can't get out all you put in, there must be losses.


The crucial rule of thumb to remember is that to
evaporate the water out and invert the sugar, bees
use about 0.6 lb of sugar for every quart of water
in the syrup one is feeding.

This makes for some fancy math, because the more
you feed, the more that the bees use to process
the feed, and you need to feed yet a little more.

There is an online tool that does this math made
available at http://www.beekeeping.co.nz
by our friend Nick Wallingford.  Find the
"Ready Reckoner" link, and click on it.  It says:

Syrup  Syrup Fed   Sugar Fed   Sugar Stored
Type     (Quarts)    (Pounds)    (Pounds)
-----  ---------   ---------   ------------
1:2     200.19     166.67        75
1:1      83.80     106.40        75



    jim (Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!)

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