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narrow chamber (Fig. 15), therefore maintaining a high. 
temperature, and under this stimulus they quickly reduce 
the soft grains of sugar without waste. 
The advantages of this feeder have been acknowledged 
by many British bee-keepers during the past 30 years, but 
our American friends are but just realizing the benefits 
offered by the plan for stimulative feeding, for feeding 
nuclei without constant attention, and for the economic 
feeding of out-apiaries in times of dearth. 
Ed. E. R. Root, of Gleanings in Bee-Culture, suggests 
the use of Coffee A sugar for this class of feeding, and 
recommends its use over the cluster in paper dishes in 
times of scarcity. The Author used moist sugars in this 
way over skeps as well as frame hives in the early 80's. 
The bees should be crowded into the feeder, and if placed 
Next to a Frame of Brood 
they will quickly work into this frame or dummy feeder, 
when the temperature of the whole hive will rise, and the 
brood nest be greatly extended. 
Granulated sugars cannot be used, but that known as 
Porto Rico, a soft, moist article, is used, being pressed in 
tightly, and the bees, entering above the movable side, 
which does not reach the top bar by jin., are soon busily 
engaged in reducing the food to syrup. No dark moist 
sugars are suitable as a Winter food in cold latitudes. 
Any moist cane sugar will do for this class of feeder, and 
the same frame also makes an excellent candy feeder. 
The feeders are placed as an ordinary frame at the 
outside of the brood nest and the bees allowed only so 
many combs that they are crowded into them. 
Another very serviceable frame feeder I have in use for 
moist sugar holds 9 lbs. or 10 Ibs., and is 3in. across. The 
bottom is simply a sheet of finely perforated tin fixed in 
