I now have a text version of Murray Reid's article from the 1974 New
Zealand Beekeeper, titled "The Inside Story of Feeding Sugar to
Bees".  Murray discussed the energy/effort implications of feeding
dry and liquid syrup to colonies, providing a good technical overview
to the process of converting sugar into stores.
 
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