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Set up a small piece of board, a chip, 

 or a piece of honey section against the 

 side of the pan, so the bees can easily 

 climb over to the food, when a hole is 

 to be opened to the hive below, by turn- 

 ing up one corner of the quilt, or remov- 

 ing a slat in the honey board for the bees 

 to come up through. Now scatter a few 

 drops of the food down through the 

 hole, and over the chip, and put on the 

 cover, seeing that the joints are all tight 

 so that no robber bees can get in. 



Just what the Apt has been recom- 

 mending for years. Yes, I have done so 

 within two months. Let those beekeep- 

 ers who have money to waste purchase 

 the patent feeders, the common bee- 

 keeper cannot afford to use them, espec- 

 ially as they are not as good in anyway 

 as the milk-pan feeder. I tell you 

 friends, that the feeders and smokers so 

 extensively advertised in nearly all the 

 bee-papers, do not compare in utility and 

 practicability with the fruit jar feeder, nor 

 with the substantial cold-blast smoker of 

 Bingham and Hetheringtons. The Hill 

 feeder is a perfect nuisance in'the api- 

 ary. When the food is about half taken 

 up by the bees, the atmospheric pres- 

 sure is released and the syrup runs out, 

 thus setting the bees to robbing. Don't 

 be deceived by the flashy advertisements 

 of feeders and smokers found in some 

 of the papers. 



I recently saw in one of the Api ex- 

 changes that sugar-honey, so far as 

 the flavor was concerned, is far better 

 and pleasanter to the taste than pure 

 honey. I took a notion one day to 

 test the matter for myself. I can say 

 that honey and sugar mixed, say two 

 pounds of sugar to one of honey, is 

 superior in flavor and quality to clear, 

 pure honey. 



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