{"id":56,"date":"2009-10-08T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linode.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=56"},"modified":"2009-10-08T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T14:14:18","slug":"a-batch-of-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"A Batch of Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got just over 3 jars of syrup out of a 10 lb bag of sugar a few days ago.\u00a0 Today I checked on the jar I put out.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve eaten about 1\/2 of the syrup in 3 days.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s assume that 10 lbs of sugar went into 3 jars, that&#8217;s 3 1\/3 lbs of sugar per jar.\u00a0 They appear to be eating about 9 oz of sugar per day.\u00a0 At $4.50\/ 10 lb bag, the bees are consuming about $.25 a day in sugar.\u00a0 If they ate all year round at this rate, they&#8217;d consume the dollar equivalent of 23 lbs of honey in a year.\u00a0 This is a worst case for my hive at current consumption rates.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeding the bees just to get them through the winter.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want Domino sugar honey in the supers (there are no supers on now).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got just over 3 jars of syrup out of a 10 lb bag of sugar a few days ago.\u00a0 Today I checked on the jar I put out.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve eaten about 1\/2 of the syrup in 3 days.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s assume that 10 lbs of sugar went into 3 jars, that&#8217;s 3 1\/3 lbs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","tag-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}