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disposed, whon speaking to each other, to 

 state it a little stronger than the real facts 

 in the case will warrant. Recognizing this, 

 be snre that all of your statements are a lit- 

 tle below the mark, as it seems to you. 

 Your opponent is watcliing keenly for any 

 evidence of insincerity or untruthfulness on 

 your part. He may be a bad man himself, 

 and therefore he is hoping to lind vou are 

 equally bad, and is ready, at the smallest ex- 

 cuse or provocation, to call you untruthful. 

 Be guarded and wary. Surprise and disarm 

 your opponent by statements so mild that 

 he will be forced to say in his heart. '• Well, 

 f declare I the fellow is fair, even if he is 

 right against me in this matter." He may 

 have been ready to call you a liar the minute 

 he catches hold of the very smallest exagger- 

 ated statement. Make every point and 

 every complaint of his conduct a good way 

 inside of the line of truth, and then you are 

 on the safe side, anyway. We unconsciously 

 measui-e each other, and just hi'iiY in mind 

 with what respect and revei-ence you look 

 up to a man whom everybody knows is mild 

 and fair, and within the bounds of truth in all 

 his statements. Don't let the heat of contro- 

 versy, or any temptations in the way of self- 

 ishness, lead you to overstate. Be kind, 

 even to the unthankful. The power and in- 

 lluence and weight of a man who is univer- 

 sally known to be kind and fair, even when 

 he has been misused, is wonderful; and 

 even bad and wicked men look up to him 

 with reverence and respect. Shall we not 

 strive for such a reputation among men? 



CliNIiUCTKD BY ERNEST R. ROOT. 



FEEDINfJ, AXD THE BEST FEEDEKS FOR i 

 nUSIXESS. 



TM talking now upon feeders and tiieir rel- 

 m ative merits, I hope I may not l)e under- 

 % stood as saying that the feeders which 

 ''■' T shall recommend are the best, but. in 

 my opinion, are the best we have tried. 

 for reasons which I shall presently give. 



I believe that, in answer to a correspon- 

 dent recently, I stated that Ave used and 

 preferred the bread pan feeder. So we did 

 at that time ; but a combination of circum- 

 stances has reversed my opinion. It occui'- 

 red something in this way : About the time 

 we were placing bread-pan feeders upon the ' 

 hives, preparatory to feeding, our supply of 

 feeders gave out. 



'■ Can't you lind any more bread-pansV 

 said I to the apiarist. 



•'No," he replied; "but there are some 

 old trough Simplicity feeders in the second 

 story of the house-ap'iary ; but, one of those 

 won't hold enough for feeding up (piick."" 



•■ >V'ell,'" said I, ""if there are enougli we 

 will give each colony three, which number. 

 I think, will hold about the same f|uantitv 

 of syrup as one of the bread-pans.'' 



We managed to sci-ape together about a 

 hundred. To every colony that still lacked 

 a bread-pan we gave three of these Simplic- 

 ity feeders, placing them on top of the en- 

 ameled cloth, the latter being tin-ned back 



so as to allow the bees to come up and 

 "drink." The bread-pans, with a piece of 

 cheese-cloth, were laid upon the enameled 

 cloth in tlie same manner, there being only 

 one to each hive. The feeders were filled fvt 

 night, as I have before explained in the 

 previous number. We had not continued 

 our feeding more than a day or so before our 

 in-efcrence was decidedly in favor of the 

 Simplicity feeders, for these reasons : 



BKt;Al)-I'AN' KKEDEU. 



The cheese-cloths in the Ijread-pans. after 

 they are empty, in the majority of cases 

 stick to the bottom of the pans, and it is no 

 little task to pull them up ; 2. The cloths 

 have always to be pulled away before filling, 

 which takes time; 8. The sides of the pan 

 being made of tin, and sloping at that, 

 makes it no easy matter for the bees to get 

 at the feed ; 4. If the cloth is not laid over 

 the pan of syrup very carefully, a good 

 many bees are apt to get drowned ; 5. In 

 cool weather the bees will scarcely ever take 

 feed from them— from the fact, I suppose, 

 that the metal is cold to their feet. None 

 of these objections can be named against the 

 Simplicity feeder. With the latter it is only 

 necessary to raise the cover and pour in the 

 syrup — no cheese-cloth nor any thing of the 

 sort to fuss with. If the three feeders are 

 full of bees it is of no consequence ; pour 

 the feed in just the same. The bees that 

 are immersed in the syrup will crawl up the 

 partitions in the feeders, as it were, and 

 none will be drowned— at least, I have never 

 seen any dead bees in the Simplicity feeders, 

 and I have tried to so besmear the i)ees with 

 syrup as to drown them. Perhaps some of 

 our A B (' scholars would like to see a cut of 

 the Simplicity feeder, showing the partitions, 

 which i)reveiit the bees from drowning. 



SIMPMCITV FEEDER. 



It is simply a wooden trough ; and the 

 fact that it is made of wood, constitutes one 

 of its chief ])oints of excellence. The wood 

 is a non-conductor of heat and cold, and 

 during cool weather is not so apt to repel 

 the bees. Its wooden surface also renders it 

 an easy matter for the bees to gain access to 

 the feed, and the rough sides of the parti- 

 tions, as left by the wabbling-saw, serve as 

 an excellent foothold to the bees in climbing, 

 even when besmeared with syrup. A bee 

 that can't climb up these partitions is no bee 

 at all, and ought to drown. 



The fact that the Simplicity requires no 

 floats or clotlis to be lifted out and replaced, 

 makes it possible to feed up a lot of colonies 

 in nearly half the time that the bread-pan 

 feeder requires. It not only takes less time 

 to fill the feeders with syrup, but the bees will 

 in every instance show their preference by 



