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water. The bees will crawl up on I lie cloth, 

 and appropriate the syrup, without danger 

 of drowning. One objection to pans is 

 that it litters them up ; and after the feed is 

 all taken, the cloth is likely to be stuck 



SIMPLICITY HKE-FEEDKK. 



down by the dried crystals. Boiling water 

 will, however, very soon clean them. 



A feeder that has been used very largely 

 is the Simplicity trough feeder. It is an ex- 

 cellent feeder, cheap in price, and occupies 

 very little room on top of the brood-frames. 



Another feeder that has been used very 

 largely consists of a common wooden tray, 

 such as one gets at the grocery when he buys 

 butter. A hundred of these can be nested 

 together so as to take up but very little 

 room, and the price is insignificant. It is 

 not necessaty to use cheese-cloth with the 

 butter-tray. Set them on the top of the 

 frames, and fill them with syrup. 



Another feeder is the pei)pf r box. It is a 

 can, of pint or quart size, with a perfo^rated 



PEPPER-BOX FEEDEK. 



top. This is filled with syrui), inverted, and 

 set right over the brood-frames in the upper 

 story. 



Still another feeder is the Boardman. This 

 makes use of a Mason jar— something that 

 is a common commodity in every household. 

 The jars are filled witli syrup ; and with the 



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feed a large number of colonies with a sup- 

 ply of these jars at once. 



The cans themselves when inverted are set 

 down through a hole in a sort of box. The 

 two side pieces of this box are made in such 

 a way as to leave projections which extend 

 clear into the entrance, thus barring rob- 

 bers from dodging into the box. The top of 

 the box has a hole just large enough to let 

 the Mason jar be supported i inch from 

 the inside of the bottom. When one has a 

 supply of Mason jars, all he requires from 

 his manufacturer will be the box and a 

 special cap that permits the bees to get the 

 syrup in small quantities at a time. As 

 this is an entrance feeder it is always in 

 sight, and one can see at a glance whether 

 the jars are empty or not. 



A wheelbarrowful of filled cans with the 

 special caps may be run through the apiary ; 

 and whenever a can is discovered that is 

 empty, it is taken c.t of its box and re- 

 placed by another jar filled with syrup. The 

 special feature of this feeder is that one can 

 see by a glance at a row of hives those colo- 

 nies that have emptied their cans, and a 

 fresh supply given without disturbing the 

 bees or opening the hives. But there is one 

 objection— it has a tendency to incite rob- 

 bing; yet where one is careful, and sees that 

 the caps to the cans are properly adjusted, 

 there will be little or no trouble. 



ALKXANDER FEEDEK. 



The Alexander is another outdoor feeder 

 that is very popular with many bee-keepers. 

 It is nothing more nor less than a trough 

 feeder on the principle of the Simplicity, 

 previously described, secured under the 

 back end of the hive when the bottom-board 



THE BOARDMAX EXTRANCE FEEDER. 



special cap that is furnished by the manu- 

 facturers of bee-keepers' supplies, one can 



is shoved forward as shown. To feed, it is 

 only necessary to lift up the block with one 

 hand and pour in the syrup. So convenient 

 is it that a hundred colonies can be fed up 

 in a few minutes No robbers can molest, 

 for the food is clear back away from the 



