210 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
second caution obviously refers only to feeding when 
the hive is nearly or quite without stores. The term 
“stimulating feeding” has reference to the object of 
bringing the bees forward, so that they may commence 
operations as early as possible in the season. 
If the hive cover is not secure against the admission 
of robber bees, the bottle fecder will require some 
form of covering. <A lell-glass will be quite effectual, 
but all that is necded is to protect the part round 
the mouth. Messrs. Neighbour have introduced a 
feeder on the same principle as the bottle, but in 
which this difficulty is done away with; the vessel 
consisting of a flat-bottomed tin can with five small 
holes closed by a valve. It has a screw top, and a 
strip of glass on one side, showing the height of the 
syrup. 
The sooner the feeding is ended the better; the 
bees, if in health, beme on these occasions much 
excited and often iascible. Let enough be given 
when you are about it. Gelien says, “ Let there be 
no higeling with the bees; better that they have 
too much than too little.’* Recollect that little of 
your bounty is now eaten, but is conveyed and stored 
for the day of need; the bees sometimes extending 
the combs purposely to reecive it, and often those 
of pollen as well; for it is observable that feeding 
even in autumn stimulates them to foraging abroad. 
Nothing is wasted, and whatever there is to spare 
*'This is no contradiction of the cautions viven above, which referred 
tu supplying food for immediate consumption. In reading of the 
quantities appropriated (whether of pollen or of honey) the beginner 
must avoid confusion between the actual feeding of bees, and their 
volecting of winter store. 
