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10th. It is well arranged for wintering bees successfully, as it is well ventilated, and the 
boxes containing the bees being enclosed in a case, keeps them in an even temperature 
during winter, and they consume much less honey than in singlo hives. 
PHELPS’ BEE-FEEDER. 
Tae above cuts represent a feed-box and float, of my own invention, that I have con- 
structed expressly to accompany my Combination Hive, although it may be applied to 
other hives. It consists of a tin pan, or tray, placed in a wooden box, with a float to fit, 
and a tin tube passes through the float and is secured to it on the under side. The float may 
be raised at any time, even if it is covered with bees, by means of the tube, and the syrup 
poured into the pan through the tube by inserting a funnel in the top of it. The float sup- 
ports the bees and prevenis them from getting into the syrup, and as they consume the 
syrup it settles down with them. A piece of wood across the top of the box, with a hole 
for the tube, keeps it in its place, anda pane of glass on each side of this confines the 
bees, and affords an opportunity to observe their operations while feeding. The feeder is 
placed in the case by the side of one of the lower sections, while feeding, and the bees 
do not have a distance of over six inches to travel from the main body of the hive to 
obtain their feed, and the communication from the hive to the feeder being near the top of 
the box containing the bees, robbers are not at all liable to find their way to it, as they 
must enter the small aperture in the front of the hive, and pass nearly through the centre 
of the colony, toreachit. With this feeder, arranged in this manner, a colony of bees 
may be fed with as little trouble, by a woman or child, as a brood of chickens. 
E. W. PHELPS’ 
OHIO COMBINATION BEE-HIVE. 
Tue subscribers are now prepared to sell State, County, or individual rights for the best 
Bee-Hive in the United States, on the most favorable terms. No other hive has given as 
good satisfaction as this, after a thorough trial, and it receives the unqualified approbation 
of ninety-nine out of every hundred that use or examine it, which cannot be said of any 
other hive in the United States. any ‘ ; ? ae 
Individual rights, $4 ; for Hive and individual right, $8 ; Hive and right to use the same, 
and no more, $6 ; Feeder and receipt for different kinds of fecd for wintering bees, and, 
also, for obtaining honey for market or table use, $1. Full specifications for making the 
hives, and directions and explanations for using, sufficient to enable any person who never 
kept bees, to manage them Srthoat raibaeeee 2 and senecesstully. (if he will follow the 
irecti ight. Address, post-pai 
directions,) accompany the right. DP e Me) HEEES. &-CO., Westfield, Mass, 
