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From: "Peter John Keating" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: WAS[BEE-L] How to draw now HFCS
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:27:42 -0500


Mike is right here. This has most likely been discussed before on BEE-L. One
year here in Quebec the Federation offered HFCS as the price of sugar was
high. It was the enzyme produced product. We were advised to cut it with 10%
water. Not sure why, but most likely to be able to pump the stuff. I feed in
barrels and just gravity fill them in the yard from  tanks on the truck
(totes). The first barrel I added the water afterwards. big mistake! The
water just floated on the surface!  In the second barrel I put the water
first - brain now functioning. But then I asked myself why add the water
anyway?? So the rest of the 350 hives were fed neat. I did place straw as a
float but I'm not sure if it was really necessary as the syrup is so thick
the bees can walk on it.

Most beekeepers who used the HFCS that year had higher than usual winter
losses. I had one of the best winter successes for many years. They all
blamed the syrup, and now the Federation only purchases regular sucrose
syrup. The vagrancies of beekeeping!

Peter

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