228 The SiniplicilY I'^ccdcr. 



88, c) is cut off, so that the bees can pass bctweeu the can 

 and top-bar on to the float, where they can sip the feed. 

 The feed is turned into the hole in the top-bar (Fig 88, r), 

 and without touching a bee, passes down untler the \'crti- 

 cal strip (Fig. 88, d) and raises the float (Fig. 88, /). The 

 can may be tacked to the board at tlie ends near the top. 

 Two or tliree tacks through tlie can into the vertical piece 

 (Fig. 88, d) will hold the laUcr lirnily in place; or the top- 

 bar may press on the vertical piece so that it cannot move. 

 Crowding a narrow piece of woolen cloth between the 

 can and board, and nailing a similar strip around the bev- 

 eled edge of the division board, make^ all snug. The 

 objection to this feeder is that it cannot he placed just 

 above the cluster of bees. On \cry cold days in spring 

 the bees can not reach their food in any other position. 

 The feeder is placed at the end of the brood-chamber, and 

 the top-bar covered by the quilt. To feed, we have only 

 to fold the quilt over, when with a tea-pot we pour the 

 feed into the hole in the top-bar. If a honey board is 

 used, there must be a hole in this just above the hole in 

 the division-board feeder. In cither case no bees can 

 escape, the heat is conlined, and our division-board feeder 

 is but little more expensive than a division board alone. 



Some apiarists prefer a quart can with lincly perforated 

 cover. This is fdled with liquid, the co\er put on, and the 

 whole quickly in\'ertcd and set above a hole in the cover 

 just above the bees. Owing to tlie pressure of the air, the 

 liquid will not descend so rapidly that the liees cannot sip 

 it up. The objections to tliis feeder arc, that it Is awkward, 

 raises the cushions so as to (lermit the escape of heat, and 

 must be removed to receive the feed. Mr. A. I. Root 

 recommends the little butter trays s<ild at the groceries for 

 feeding. 'I'liese cost only one-thiril of a cent. "Need no 

 float and work admn-ably." I lia\c tried these and think 

 thev haveonl\' their clieapness to leeoniniend them. Thev 

 raise tlic cover, cannol lie lilled wilhoul dislurbiiig the 

 bees, leak, and dauh the liees. As fii-ders last for a life- 

 time I prefer to pay niort- antl L;el good ones. 



The SimpHcitv feeder ( l"ig. N<)), in\enled by Mr. A. I. 

 Root, is shown on its side ui the illustration. This is used 



