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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Aug. 3, 1899. 



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jars or cans with water and inverting them 

 in flower-pot saucers, putting sotnething 

 under one edge of the jar to raise it up so 

 that air can get in and water get out. 

 ~Mrs. J. M. Null — Yes. Practical meth- 

 ods which are at once inexpensive and 

 elticient are constantly found in Ihe bee- 

 papers. Common-sense and necessity will 

 discover a feasible method. •• Necessity is 

 the mother of invention." 



C. Davenport — Bees certainly require a 

 large amount of water for brood-rearing, 

 and it there is none near, it would be a 

 great help to them to have it supplied near 

 the yard. Throw a quantity of clean corn- 

 cobs in tubs or barrels, then pour in the 

 water. 



J. A. Stone — We think it is. and keep a 

 tub (elevated three or four feet) with a lit- 

 tle salt in the water, and the best plan we 

 have tried to keep the bees from drowning 

 is the one Mr. J. Q. Smith told us about — a 

 cloth spread over the top and sagged to dip 

 in the water. 



Adrian Getaz — It is necessary that water 

 should be within reach. One good way to 

 provide it is to have a sheet-iron tray about 

 three feet wide and long, and four inches 

 deep. Fill it with moss, and put a bucket 

 of water in it occasionally. The moss fur- 

 nishes the bees a foothold, 



D. W. Heise — If there is no water close 

 to the apiary I would consider it of benefit 

 in early spring. Take planks and bore them 

 full of holes, say one inch deep, with a two 

 or three inch auger, making communica- 

 tions from one hole to the other. This is 

 very cheap, and answers very well. 



E. Whitcomb — As necessary as to furnish 

 water to stock in pasture. Use chicken 

 fountains, or jar or can inverted over a 

 block in which grooves have been cut not 

 quite to the outside. Try them and get rid 

 of spring dwindling. Slightly sweeten the 

 water for a day or two to entice the bees, 



J. A. Green — Yes As water has always 

 been plentiful in or near my apiaries, I 

 have had no experience with artificial 

 methods. Their preference is for a place 

 where they can sip water without any dan- 

 ger of getting wet, such as the moist soil or 

 gravel along the edge of a stream or pond, 



Mrs, A, J, Barber— Yes, A large trough 

 with coarse hay or straw thrown in loosely 

 several inches deep, and then water poured 

 in, is good. The straw, if not too fine, en- 

 ables the bees to get water and crawl out 

 without getting wet. A leaky five-gallon 

 can to drip on boards is good, but we like 

 the trough best, 



R, L. Taylor — Water is necessary for the 

 bees, but they get it from the margins of 

 ponds, marshes and streams. If none of 

 these is convenient, water may be supplied 

 near by in any kind of vessels, furnishing 

 each with plenty of floats of shingles, pieces 

 of boards, etc., to enable the bees to get to 

 the water without danger of falling into it. 



A. F. Brown — I have never been situated 

 where there was a total absence of water. 

 Being near the sea-coast (Florida), if my 

 bees cannot get fresh water, they go to the 

 beach by thousands and get salt water. 

 From their anxiety to obtain it I should 

 say it was very essential. In places where 

 it is absent otherwise, they obtain it largely 

 from the dews of night, 



E, S. Lovesy— It is, and two of the best 

 methods for supplying it that I know of 

 are: First, take a good-sized pan and fill it 

 with moderately small cobble rocks, then 

 nearly fill it with water. Second, take a 

 keg or small barrel, bore holes in it and 

 stuff rags in the holes just tight enough so 

 the water will seep thru and keep the rags 

 wet. Keep the keg supplied with water. 



Dr. A, B, Mason— For the best results it 

 is. In less than one day about the middle 

 of April last, 611 colonies of bees took a ten- 

 quart pail of water that had been sweet- 

 ened just enough with honey so it could be 

 tasted as sweetened. On other days they 

 would take from two to three quarts of 

 water with no honey in, but in each case 

 some cappings without honey were put on 

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