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shortage of nectar, a thinner syrup will do. 

 Feeders. — The purchase of unnecessary 

 equipment should always be discouraged. 

 AMiile at times a lot of feeders are convenient, 

 the careful beekeeper will be able to plan his 

 operations in such a manner as seldom to find 

 use for them. As convenient a way of feeding 

 as the writer has ever seen is that practiced by 

 D. E. Lhommedieu, a well-known Iowa bee- 

 keeper. He makes his syrup in a wash-boiler 

 and when ready for use takes empty combs and 

 holding them at an angle of about forty-five 

 degrees, pours the warm syi^up into them with 

 an ordinary dipper. The syrup must not be 

 hot for wax melts at a low temperature and if 

 too hot it would injure the combs. By turning 

 the comb first on one side and then over and 

 filhng both sides, it will hold enough sjTup to 

 make a very good supply for temporary pur- 

 poses, such as spring stimulative feeding. If 

 there be a long-continued dearth, several such 



