82 BEEKEEPING 



that they will eat and this can readily be 

 furnished to them from a small tin pan 

 placed inside an empty super and covered 

 with the regular hive cover. Regular de- 

 vices are furnished by dealers in bee- 

 keeping supplies for the purpose of feed- 

 ing bees, but I have had so much better 

 results from the use of the open pan that 

 I do not care to bother with the patent 

 feeders. 



My plan is to remove the interior fit- 

 tings from the super and place the empty 

 body on the hive in the regular way — just 

 as though it was to be used for honey pro- 

 duction, except, of course, that it contains 

 no sections. Inside this super and directly 

 on top of the frames I place a small tin 

 pan holding about a quart. Fairly thick 

 sugar sirup is poured into this pan and a 

 handful of twigs, grass or chips is thrown 

 on the surface of the sweet. This debris 

 enables the bees to get at a larger surface 

 of the food and if they should happen to 

 fall in, as they often do, it will enable 



