132 A MANUAL OF BEE-KEEPING. 



reigning Queen that a stranger has most to dread, but 

 from the vengeance of the Worker Bees, who are more 

 often the assailants and executioners of the intruder. 



FEEDERS AND FEEDING. 



Much ingenuity has been exercised in designing an 

 apparatus for feeding Bees, but they may all give place 

 to a simple bottle, which I think most Bee-keepers of 

 experience use ; and, therefore, as the main appliance 

 answering every purpose, I shall describe no other, 

 simply illustrating the best manner to use that. In the 

 first place the bottle selected should be of a squat shape, 

 with a wide mouth ; in default of better, pickle-bottles 

 answer admirably. The capacity should be one or two 

 pints ; this is filled with syrup, tied over with a double 

 fold of net or leno, and inverted perfectly upright over 

 the feeding-hole, or without the net, covered with a piece 

 of perforated zinc, and then used in the same manner ; 

 there being no vent, of course the liquid remains in its 

 reservoir, unless sucked out, which the Bees are not 

 backward in doing ; a strong stock will, when active, 

 take in and store one or two quarts in 24 hours, but it is 

 not always desirable to allow them unlimited provender ; 

 to control this Mr. F. Cheshire has introduced a simple 

 contrivance by which the supply may be regulated to 

 the Bees, with the greatest nicety. A plate of vulcanite 

 (but tin or zinc will do as well) is fixed upon the hive 

 board by a screw (A), to receive which a hole is first 

 made in the vulcanite with a red-hot wire. 



