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Feeders of the trough or saucer form are supplied 
by the makers in zine, earthenware, and wood. But 
others are made on the principle represented on 
page 118, under the description of the Cheshire hive, 
and there is in their case a facility of regulating the 
supply of food, which has not yet been devised for the 
others. A common pickle-bottle answers the purpose 
well, from its wide mouth; if this is narrower, a sup- 
port will be required to hold the bottle erect. The 
vuleanite plate there mentioned can be obtained by 
itself for application to any hive; in its absence, a 
piece of net must be fastened over the mouth of the 
bottle, and perforated zinc made use of besides. In 
the case of the vulcanite, it is recommended to scrape 
off excrescences that would prevent its passing smoothly 
under the mouth of the bottle, but to roughen it by 
scratches beneath, so as to afford a better foothold to 
the bees. ‘‘Two cautions,” adds Mr. Cheshire, ‘ are 
necessary: first, do not use over-large bottles, for 
the syrup to be filled at long intervals, as some have 
recommended. Air expands and contracts greatly as 
its temperature rises and falls, and that standing 
above the syrup in a capacious bottle, increasing in 
volume as the morning warms, will pour our food 
down over the bees, to their great injury, especially 
if the night has been cold. <A bee-keeper of our ac- 
quaintance recently lost a stock from this cause....... 
Second, bees will often devour whole batches of eggs 
deposited under the stimulus of continuous feeding, 
if [afterwards] left without supplies for a few hours. 
This is more particularly true when the weather is 
such as to confine them wholly to their hives.” This 
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