1894. 



THE . I ME II li '. I X BEE- KEEPER. 



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and it done about as much good as 

 emptying a bucket of water in a 

 river to cause a freshet. 



Another sting in the hand made 

 that member look like a toad. This 

 time I tried to suck out the poison 

 after being stung, but the swelling 

 lasted two days all the same. I kept 

 it from itching at night by wetting 

 one end of a towel in cold water and 

 wrapping and tying it tightly about 

 the sting. During the day I avoided 

 the itching by immersing in hot water 

 occasionally or by holding up closely 

 to a hot fire. The last named remedy 

 applied for about half a minute lasted 

 for several hours. 



I now say au revoir and if any read- 

 er has a good remedy for bee stings 

 let us (the bees and I) know soon if 

 not sooner. 



Chain Dam, Pa. 



Bee Feeders. 



BY T. J. DARLINGTON. 



Ever since 1840 I have been using 

 a tin pan with perpendicular sides 

 with a wooden float on the honey or 

 syrup with \ inch holes. This feeder 

 I use on the outside of the hive in a 

 box with a lid. In the float was in- 

 serted a tin tube which extended up 

 through the lid of the box. On this 

 tube was a mark to tell when the 

 feeder was empty, also one to tell 

 when full. A stopper on top of the 

 tube prevented all robbing. The side 

 of the box next to the hive was left 

 longer than the other three sides to 

 admit of securing it to the hive. Un- 

 der the lid was a hole in the side of 

 the box and a corresponding one in the 

 side of the hive. This was before I 

 knew of such a thing as a frame hive, 



but it can be attached to a frame hive 

 or any other. Since I have been us- 

 ing the Dovetailed hive I set a tin 

 feeder with float in a super with a 

 hole through the enamel cover of 

 brood frames. By feeding in the 

 super with this feeder you can have 

 it of any size to suit your fancy. 



I saw in the Pennsylvania Agricul- 

 tural Reports of 1889 that William 

 Yoder of Lewisburg has made an im- 

 provement on this style of feeder so 

 that it can be used in quite cool weath- 

 er. He has a tube in the bottom of 

 the feeder to extend within ^ inch of 

 the top, so that with the cover on the 

 feeder the bees can come up through 

 the tube on to the float. The hole in 

 the feeder of course is set exactly over 

 the hole in the covering of frames. 

 The advantage of this is that you can 

 pack the super over the feeder to keep 

 in the heat, while the warmth of the 

 bees through the tube will enable them 

 to feed when otherwise they could not. 

 I believe this feeder to be the best, at 

 least, it is the best of which I have 

 any knowledge. 



Westchester, Pa. 



A Review of the Season. 



BY JOE C. MOORE. 



In most localities the past season 

 has been very poor and it seems as if 

 it was very general all over the coun- 

 try from the reports in Gleanings. The 

 correspondent from North Carolina 

 says " poorest known." 



The principal cause for such a bad 

 season was thatwe secured scarcely any 

 surplus at all from poplar and coming 

 as it does at the beginning of the hon- 

 ey harvest it causes the bees to fill 

 the hives both with bees and honey. 



