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turning back the quilt, and the bees go in by a slot on 
the side. It does not at all matter about pouring the 
syrup over any bees that may be in the feeder, as they 
are soon cleaned up by their fellows. A float is used and 
should be 4in. narrower and shorter than the inside of the 
feeder. 
In many apiaries feeding is seldom resorted to, but there 
are itimes of dearth when valuable colonies would be 
utterly ruined were it not for the timely assistance rendered 
by the owner—assistance that sooner or later is repaid a 
hundredfold. 
Of course, if feeding is absolutely necessary after the 
surplus receptacles have once been occupied, it must be 
simply from “hand to mouth,” that nothing be stored in 
supers ; while it may even be desirable to remove such 
entirely, replacing them when better times put in an 
appearance. 
Feeding without Feeders 
is something that needs our attention before closing this 
chapter. Of the various methods offered for filling stock 
combs with syrup, to be placed in the centre of the brood 
nest for stimulation, or near the outside for storing, no 
plan can be so effective and simple as that employed by 
the late Mr. W. Raitt, of Scotland. He used a common 
syringe, placing the comb in a drip pan, while driving the 
syrup into the cells. The filled combs are carried to the 
hives requiring them, while sometimes a chamber is filled 
up with them and placed bodily under the stock chamber 
which has to be stored. 
A simple method of giving moist sugar is that of first 
placing a layer of strainer cloth upon the frames; the 
sugar above that, and pressed into a compact mass, with 
the usual quilting next that, nicely tucked up to keep all 
