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to last several days, and then return them to the stand — 

 keeping a good look out that they are not plundered, and 

 again starving, until the flowers produce sufficient honey. 



MAKNER OF FEEDING. , 



The following is a more systematic mode of feeding. 

 Get a tinman to make a dish, ten or twelve inches square, 

 with vertical sides two inches high. For a hox hive cut a 

 bsard two feet long, and fifteen inches wide ; two or three 

 inches from one end, cut out a place exactly the size of 

 the dish, so that it will set in just even with the upper 

 side of the hoard. Make a good fit, that no bees may get 

 in around it. Nail cleats on the under side one or two 

 inches thick. To keep the bees from drowning when the 

 dish is filled with honey, and to prevent them from making 



Fio;. 18. — rEEDEK. 

 combs down into it, set in some thin strips edgewise, half 

 an inch apart, and reaching nearly to the bottom. To 

 hold these strips in place, put a piece of half inch board, 

 two inches wide, across each end. With a thick or coarse 

 saw, cut channels half an inch apart in one side of these 

 pieces, one-fourth inch deep, and crowd the thin strips in- 

 to them even with the top of the dish. 



The strips may be split out of shingles, or sawed for the 

 purpose. Set the hive over this, leaving one end of the 

 dish two inches outside the back of the hive, for conve- 



