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FEEDING. 



their train a multitude of others, to the great 

 injury of the well fed apiary. The way in which 

 I feed my own bees is exceedingly simple, and 

 attended with no risk to the apiarian. At the 

 close of the gathering season, I turn my boxes 

 and their floors a quarter round, and adapt to 

 them a long narrow box with a glass top and two 

 openings, one at the end, serving as a street door, 

 the other in the side serving as a hall door leading 

 into the box, as shown in the following sketch. 



In an evening, when the bees are all at home, I 

 push in the slide of the floor board, raise the 

 glazed box, and place the syrup under it : then I 

 close the external entrance, and withdraw the 

 slide to admit the bees to the food : by morning I 

 generally find that my donation has been removed. 

 I place the syrup in a small shallow saucer, 

 covered over with Scotch gauze, through which 

 the bees suck it without smearing their wings. 

 If the gauze hang over the sides of the saucer, it 



