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spaces which communicate with the hives. These 

 are now stopped up with scraps of wood tacked 

 over them, and a long narrow strip of glass is cut 

 to cover the compartment. 



The ladder (see Fig. 141) which enables the bees 

 to take the food without the risk of being drowned 

 can now be made. The best material to employ 

 is the wooden dividers used to separate the 

 sections in a section crate. They can be cut 12 

 in. by 3j in., and seventeen or eighteen of them 

 will be required. Twice as many pieces of wood f 



Fig. 141. Section of Rapid Bee Feeder. 



in. thick by about \ in. by ij in. will also be re- 

 quired. One of the thin dividers is then taken 

 and marked with a pencil 3^ in. from each end. 

 A couple of the small pieces of the wood are then 

 laid on these marks and equidistant from the edges 

 of the divider ; another divider is then laid on top, 

 and a tack through each thick piece secures the 

 three together ; another couple of thick pieces are 

 put next, again a thin one, and the tacking con- 

 tinued as before until the pile is high enough 

 to fit the breadth of the trough. The thin wood 

 dividers of which this ladder is made are kept 

 | in. apart by the little blocks between. The out- 



