CHAPTER XIY. 



BEE KEEPERS' MISCELLANEOUS APPLIANCES. 



THIS, the concluding chapter, will concern itself 

 with a number of appliances more or less indis- 

 pensable to the bee keeper. 



A bee feeder which has two wooden floats is 

 shown in plan by Fig. 132, and in vertical section 



Fig. 131. 



Fig. 132. 



Fig. 132. Plan of Float Bee Feeder. Figs. 133 and 134. 

 Sections of Bee Feeder. 



by Fig. 133. First make a wooden box of any 

 size up to 14 in. long by 8 in. wide by 4 in. deep. 

 At a distance of T 3 ^- in. from the top, run round the 

 sides and one end a groove as shown at A (Figs. 

 133 and 134), into which the glass cover will slide 

 freely ; then at one end fix a partition c with J-in. 

 clearance at the bottom B (Fig. 133) and up to the 

 glass at the top. At D (Figs. 132 and 133) cut a 



