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the bottom, thus making a sticky mess on the floor- 

 board, unless the dummy is made \ or i inch short 

 of the bottom. An excellent pattern (Pig. 32), first 

 illustrated in the British Bee Journal, by Mr. T. B. 

 Blow on his return from a tour among beekeepers 

 in the East, is the only style that ought to be used. 

 The parallel openings in the side turned towards 

 the bees, expose the sugar to the influence of the 



Fig. 32. 



moist atmosphere, and allow the bees to feed at the 

 top or bottom, or wherever syrup is being formed. 



Eapid Eeedees. 



The feeders hitherto described have been for use 

 chiefly when food was required for stimulating the 

 queen to brood-rearing, but when an examination of 

 each colony is made in the middle of September, 

 there may be found a satisfactory state of things from 

 every point of view but one, viz., an insufficient supply 

 of food to carry the stock through the winter. What- 

 ever quantity of food is then required should be given 

 in the form of syrup containing six pounds (3 for spring 

 food) of sugar to the quart of water. The amount of 

 syrup required may be given in one or two doses warm 



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