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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 30, 1904. 



onger than the hive is wide, outside measure- 

 ment. My bottom-board is IJ.i inches thiel<, 

 counting the cleats across the front and back, 

 BO 1 dress the scantling down to V'^ inches 

 thick. After being cut up the pieces are held 

 over a buzz-saw with a little wabble to it, so 

 that it cuts a groove about J^ inch wide. 

 These grooves are cut to within about '-„ of 

 an inch of going through, and to within i.,' 

 inch of each end. I put four such grooves in 

 each piece, leaving a thin piece between the 

 grooves, then take a sharp chisel and cut a 

 little out of each piece so that the syrup can 

 run into all the grooves alike. I then fill 

 them with hot paraffin or beeswax, leaving it 

 a few seconds so as to give them a good coat- 

 ing inside to prevent the syrup from soaking 

 into the wood. Next give them two good 

 coats of paint, and we have feeders that have 

 cost about 6 cents each, and will last 20 years 

 or more. 



When I look over the colonies in the apiary, 

 I put one of these feeders at the back end of 

 the bottom-board of eich hive, placing it so 

 that the top of the feeder will be on a level 

 with the top of the bottom-board ; then draw 

 back the hive over the feeder, so it will be 

 flush with the back of the feeder, the other 

 end of the feeder projecting four inches to one 

 side of hive. I then take a pail having a 

 spout, and pour in the feed, being careful to 

 have the hive set level. When the feeder is 

 full I lay a block of 2x4 across the feeder 

 where I have poured in the syrup, and the 

 job is done. The odor of the warm syrup will 

 rise up in the combs, and the bees will at once 

 And the teed, and clean out a feeder full in 30 

 minutes. 



If you want to feed in the fall for winter- 

 ing, put two or three feeders under the hive, 

 in the same way, and give them all they re- 

 quire in one day. Of course, in the fall, you 

 must feed much thicker syrup than in the 

 spring. 



If you have the syrup handy in the yard you 

 can fi-ed 200 colonies in less than an hour, and 

 noi kii; the bees, or lose any heat from the 



A is the back end of the hive. B is the feeder 

 in position. The dotted lines indicate the 

 block used for covering that portion of the 

 feeder where the feed is poured in. 



hive. I have fed tons of syrup in this way, 

 and have never had one colony robbed. 



I would advise you to leave the feeders 

 under the hives all summer, as they are not in 

 the way, and when, from any cause, the bees 

 cannot get honey from the flowers, you can 

 easily give them a little syrup; and many 

 times save their brood, which I have seen 

 destroyed in large quantities during cold, wet 

 spells of weather. 



This loss of brood is a sad sight for a bee- 

 keeper, especially when he wants strong colo- 

 nies backed up with hives full of maturing 

 brood, so I repeat, leave the feeder under the 

 hive all summer, and when the cold, wet spells 

 do come, give them a little syrup. A very 

 little will many times save their brood, and 

 the bees will go for the flowers with a rush as 

 soon as the weather warms up a little — much 

 faster than if they bad lost their brood. 



And now what to feed is well worth consid- 



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