- Joined
- Mar 30, 2011
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- Location
- Glanaman,Carmarthenshire,Wales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Too many - but not nearly enough
I was just sifting through a few books I'd purchased some time ago and opened up a first edition Cowan's 'British Beekeeping Guidebook' and found a few slips of paper inside - one was just a recipe for syrup (with added salt and vinegar) but the other was far more interesting: Ministry of food wartime buying permit for winter feeding sugar for 'Bee rearing' (they had another smaller sugar ration in the spring for 'stimulative feeding'
, basically a ration coupon for bees - and no mention of this apocryphal green dyed sugar.

