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above or to smear the top when teeding as in case of the 

 White feeder, yet this feeder does not retain the heat in 

 ■spring. Tlie center of the cover slides back, so the whole 

 cover need not be removed when feeding is done. The 

 vertical partitions except the one next to the space (Fig. 

 92) where the food is added do not run quite to the board 

 which covers the feeder, and so the bees can pass into all 

 the spaces except where we pour in the food. No parti- 

 tion except the one next to the space where the bees pass to 

 And from the hive runs quite to the bottom, so the food will 

 pass i-eadily from one space to the other, and will always 

 be equally high in all. 



Mr. D. A. Jones and many others with tight bottom 

 boards to their hives use no feeder, but turn the feed right 

 into the hive. Dr. C. C. Miller like L. C. Root prefers to 

 feed by filling frames of empty comb with the syrup or 



Fig. 92. 



Heddon Feeder, 



honey. The empty combs are laid flat, in a deep box or 

 tub, under a colander or finely perforated pan. The syrup, 

 as it falls, fills the cells of comb. After the comb is filled 

 on both sides, we have only to hang it in the hive. I have 

 found that by use of a fine spray nozzle and force pump we 

 . ican fill fi-ames very fast. 



The best time to feed is just at night-fall. In this case 

 the feed will be carried away before the next day, and the 

 ■danger to weak colonies from robbing is avoided. 



In feeding during the cold days of April, all should be 



